cannot find localhost

localhost is defined as 127.0.0.1 And the point of this is???

This has info about the HOSTS file in XP --- http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hos... Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File I have done this to eliminate my XP from using HOSTS --- In Windows XP, I have done this, and no popups-- * Start | Run (type) "services.msc" (no quotes) * Scroll down to "DNS Client", Right-click and select: Properties * Click the drop-down arrow for "Startup type" * Select: Manual, click Apply/Ok and restart. (IF you are the only PC user, and not part of a domain.) That also eliminates one SVCHOST process in Task Manager.

Hi, What are you trying to do. Localhost is the PC itself - it is the loopback interface. Are you running a web server on your PC?. Regards

What you could do if you need to connect to localhost is to search for the hosts file in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\ In that hostsfile it should say localhost 127.0.0.1 I dont know why you want to change that, because your network card always starts with this. You could change this into 127.0.0.7 to see if it works then. I wouldnt recommend it

Thank-You for your responce. I have running a apache server on my PC and i need to run the application as http://localhost/... The host file is allredy changed and contains 127.0.0.1 localhost. ping with this address runs well

should be otherwise you have a faulty networcard ;P Do you still have any problem?