I switched off my security software before of course. I made investigations which process locked my host file, one of it was svchost.exe. There was one other but I don't remember the name. Anyway they were unstopable (respawning), so I assumed they where some sort of service. Since I found a...
I have the same problem, but only since the latest win11 update. It seems MS has introduced some background service that holds a lock on the hosts file. Additionally WLAN did not confirm internet access any more - because I had some very important entries regarding MS in my host file. The...