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Title: HOSTMAN HOSTS Usage?
Post by: Yezinki on April 08, 2010, 10:37:35 PM
Ok YoKenny I have it installed.

What should be checked in Options?
Title: Re: HOSTMAN HOSTS Usage?
Post by: Yezinki on April 08, 2010, 10:38:17 PM
more
Title: Re: HOSTMAN HOSTS Usage?
Post by: Yezinki on April 08, 2010, 10:42:14 PM
Browsing real slowly?
Title: Re: HOSTMAN HOSTS Usage?
Post by: Yezinki on April 08, 2010, 10:47:32 PM
CPU usage plus 50%.
Title: Re: HOSTMAN HOSTS Usage?
Post by: Yezinki on April 08, 2010, 10:51:10 PM
Modem status.
Title: Re: HOSTMAN HOSTS Usage?
Post by: YoKenny on April 08, 2010, 11:05:31 PM
Select Open Hosts
Disable DNS Client service
Enable Hosts file Auti-Update
Default action: Overwrite Hosts file

Start HostsMan with Run as administrator

Have you started HostsServer?

In HostsServer Start Server then in Preferences General tab:
Start HostsServer automatically
Show icon in notification area
Enable log
Log referrer

inServer tab:
On site blocked, display: message

Put each system on a separate line in the signature:
XPMCE 2005 SP3, ??MB RAM
Vista Home Premium 32bit SP2, ??GB RAM
Title: Re: HOSTMAN HOSTS Usage?
Post by: Yezinki on April 09, 2010, 10:55:32 AM
After installation CPU was high, browsing slow........when I uninstalled it using it’s uninstaller.......the LAN & WiFi adapters failed to connect to the net despite the internet light was green on the adsl X6 modem.......may be it altered the TCP/IP settings or DNS.........so I restored the previous image........I'll request my pc geek friend to come install it.

Thanks any ways YoKenny for your support.
Title: Re: HOSTMAN HOSTS Usage?
Post by: YoKenny on April 09, 2010, 11:15:46 AM
I have installed HostsMan on many systems without the problem you showed.
Title: Re: HOSTMAN HOSTS Usage?
Post by: Yezinki on April 09, 2010, 02:03:40 PM

Put each system on a separate line in the signature:
XPMCE 2005 SP3, ??MB RAM
Vista Home Premium 32bit SP2, ??GB RAM

XP MCE 2005 SP3- 2GB RAM/ Vista Home Premium 32bit SP2- 4GB RAM
Title: Re: HOSTMAN HOSTS Usage?
Post by: Yezinki on April 09, 2010, 04:27:35 PM
The Uninstaller does not revert back the changes made in Services (TCP/IP, DNS etc)?  :-\
Title: Re: HOSTMAN HOSTS Usage?
Post by: Pondus on April 09, 2010, 04:33:36 PM
Hostman forum  http://forum.abelhadigital.com/
Title: Re: HOSTMAN HOSTS Usage?
Post by: YoKenny on April 09, 2010, 05:09:27 PM
HostsMan does not make changes to TCP/IP configuration but it does disable DNS Client service that is only needed if the system is part of a corporation that uses Active Directory:
http://www.theeldergeek.com/dns_client.htm
Title: Re: HOSTMAN HOSTS Usage?
Post by: Yezinki on April 09, 2010, 09:15:51 PM
@Pondus.....sorry wont use the forum for HOSTMAN.

@YoKenny..........joined the HOSTMAN forums.......shall post there after creating a new FULL BACKUP......just in case, if I screw up.
Title: Re: HOSTMAN HOSTS Usage?
Post by: Hermite15 on April 10, 2010, 12:41:04 AM
CPU usage plus 50%.

almost killed my laptop tonight with hostman  ::) Wanted to use it (hostman) as ads are just hidden in Chrome (connections to ad servers aren't blocked at all). Worked fantastic first. Following a first reboot, noticed my network gadget wasn't displaying properly, took also time to appear on the desktop, then an exclamation point on my wi-fi tray icon (no internet), and finally a 50 to 100 % CPU load. Got an alarm from "realtemp" >>> CPU between 85 and 90°  ::) ... uninstalled hostman as fast as I could, rebooted, everything's fine again...sigh...I'm gonna add a list of ad servers manually to my hostsfile to avoid such a disaster again. I suspect hostman from blocking internal traffic in Windows. No big deal, I'm done with it now.

ps: Yokenny, I don't post that to be provocative, all this really just happened less than an hour ago.
Title: Re: HOSTMAN HOSTS Usage?
Post by: YoKenny on April 10, 2010, 02:11:25 AM
@ Logos

Maybe Chrome is not as good is they want you to believe.
Title: Re: HOSTMAN HOSTS Usage?
Post by: Hermite15 on April 10, 2010, 10:48:08 AM
@ Logos

Maybe Chrome is not as good is they want you to believe.

that's another topic ::)
Title: Re: HOSTMAN HOSTS Usage?
Post by: Chris Thomas on April 10, 2010, 11:27:43 AM
By the way,

Do you know what this means?

I cannot log into Facebook. I get this error.

Error 111 (net::ERR_TUNNEL_CONNECTION_FAILED): Unknown error.
Title: Re: HOSTMAN HOSTS Usage?
Post by: Yezinki on April 10, 2010, 06:30:20 PM
Immediately after installing HOSTMAN even before I could configure it CPU shoots up to 90%.....& again  browsing is real sluggish..........my machine isn’t as powerful.....it’s a ancient Core Duo & not Core 2 Duo..........that could be the reason why it works great on YoKenny's machines?
Title: Re: HOSTMAN HOSTS Usage?
Post by: Chris Thomas on April 10, 2010, 09:24:33 PM
No,

Just go to Services under Control Panel, Administrative Tools

Just see if DNS Client is running or Disabled