It used to be a simple process to add a line to the hosts file either manually or by some third party software. Now it seems that all this has changed.
There are MANY "how-tos" on the net, but not that I have tried has worked. In the end, it always comes down to the following ERROR when overwriting the existing hosts file (write protected or not):

The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Why do I KEEP getting this error message and how can I fix it?

Thanks
Quote from: iONik on January 10, 2021, 04:01:41 PM

It used to be a simple process to add a line to the hosts file either manually or by some third party software. Now it seems that all this has changed.
There are many "how-tos" on the net, but not that I have tried has worked. In the end, it always comes down to the following error when overwriting the existing hosts file (write protected or not):

The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Why do I keep getting this error message and how can I fix it?

Thanks