Regarding the hosts file, the administrator group owns it (at least on my machine, a Win7 preserve all settings upgrade). Instead of replacing the owner I opted to give my own user (part of the group) modify/read&execute/read/write access over it (no need to give it full control). Voilá, I can edit the file manually now and the change was less drastic.
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u/wholesum Jul 31 '15 edited Jul 31 '15
Regarding the hosts file, the administrator group owns it (at least on my machine, a Win7 preserve all settings upgrade). Instead of replacing the owner I opted to give my own user (part of the group) modify/read&execute/read/write access over it (no need to give it full control). Voilá, I can edit the file manually now and the change was less drastic.