liutgnu / updatehostsforwindows

An easy-to-use batch script to update hosts for windows

Update hosts for windows

About project

The purpose of the project is to provide a double-click-and-done way to update hosts for Windows easily. This project doesn't maintain hosts itself, ONLY downloads hosts file from racaljk/hosts and copy to the right place.

Requirements

The project requires Windows PowerShell.

Bugs

Though tested only on Windows7, it's expected to be run on Windows7, Windows8 or higher. Any questions or feedbacks are appreciated.

Why Windows

Because updating hosts for Linux is so easy that it cannot even be called as a project.

How does the script work

I'm so glad you reached here, that's the spirit of engineer.

Actually it's a mess. PowerShell scripts (or .ps1) can do downloading and copying tasks, but it cannot be activated by double-click as any other executable programmes, moreover, to run a ps1 script requires "Unrestricted or RemoteSigned ExecutionPolicy", otherwise execution is denied. There are ways to bypass such policy, such as passing "-ExecutionPolicy unrestricted" flags to PowerShell. So the batch file acts as a wrapper, to generate ps1 script and call PowerShell with specific flags.