It shouldn't take hardly any time with your rig. Don't use Notepad, get a good replacement text editor. Use Ctrl-F. Pretty quick.Originally posted by: screw3d
The problem with these huge ad-blocking hostfiles is that they sometimes block legitimate sites too. It is a pain to open them in notepad and to search for the entry to delete, since the file is so big and it takes friggin' long to do anything to it.
Also the site I linked mentions Netscape...