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@ -335,11 +335,13 @@ manually flush your DNS cache once the new hosts file is in place.
| The Google Chrome browser may require manually cleaning up its DNS Cache on `chrome://net-internals/#dns` page to thereafter see the changes in your hosts file. See: <https://superuser.com/questions/723703>
## Using huge `hosts` file in Windows required disabling DNS Cache service. You have been warned.
## Warning: Using this `hosts` file in Windows may require disabling DNS Cache service.
Latest changes in security Windows 10 denied access to changing services via other tools except registry hack. Use file
`disable-dnscache-service-win.cmd` for made proper changes in registry. After you need to reboot device.
Futher see details in cmd file code comment.
Windows has issues with larger hosts files. Recent changes in security within Windows 10 denies
access to changing services via other tools except registry hacks. Use the `disable-dnscache-service-win.cmd`
file to make proper changes to the Windows registry. You will need to reboot your device once that's done.
See the [the comments within the `cmd` file](https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/blob/master/disable-dnscache-service-win.cmd)
for more details.
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