NPS-Hosts-Manager

Light-weight Windows hosts file manager.

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NPS Hosts Manager

NPS Hosts Manager is a small gui program to quickly manage the Windows hosts file located @ \Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

Program features:

  1. Backup
    • backup hosts file to any folder
    • name it anything (but defaults to hosts_<date>.bak)
    • great way to save multiple versions
  2. Replace
    • replace hosts file with any file you want (but should be a hosts file of course lol)
    • great for restoring those backups
  3. Restore
    • restore the hosts file to Windows defaults
  4. Edit
    • opens hosts in basic Notepad
    • opens in Read/Write mode even if the file is Read Only
    • resets the file to Read Only if it was set to Read Only before it was launched after save
    • there was no need to build an editor since there is no need for syntax highlighting
  5. Read/Write
    • set Read/Write state of the hosts file on the fly

Current Release

NPS Hosts Manager 32 Bit
NPS Hosts Manager 64 Bit
Release Page - Source Files

Motivation

I built this to help normals user easily manage their hosts file, but anyone can use it as it makes the process of managing your hosts file much quicker.

Installation

Portable program (Plans for installer and portable option).

Test

I have tested on Windows 10 64 Bit

Contributors

Ian Pride @ faithnomoread@yahoo.com - [Lateralus138] @ New Pride Services

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

License provided in gpl.txt