Windows 10: Blocks on the 23H2 upgrade! Hosts file? Non-admin user? Isolation core?...

Hi everyone, it happened that my system was not eligible for the 23H2 upgrade. Windows Update said to do nothing and to wait for the update to be available, but the "More information" link took me to a web page which warned that some unspecified "blocks" were preventing the upgrade. However.Premise: my system was configured like this: my user profile used for the upgrade to 23H2 did NOT have administrator privileges; in fact there was a second Administrator profile with privileges that I had created only to prevent malicious files from being installed without permission when I'm on my user

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modifying hosts file for non admin users

I have edited the win8.1 hosts file successfully while logged in with admin rights

When I am logged in as admistrator, the entries to the host file work in the browser.

However, when I am logged in as a non admin user, the host entries do not work.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to provide the hosts file entries for non admin users?

Thanks in advance,

Beverly Howard

 

Core Isolation preventing a driver from loading

The driver "gdvr3.sys" was causing core isolation to turn off. After turning it back on and restarting, get the message that Core Isolation has blocked the driver from loading. However, it is not showing up under problems when I look under core isolation details. Not sure what next steps need to be.

 

List website to block in host file

So , recent I learn that I can block the ads on my pc if I put the ip address of that ads in the host file to go on 127.0.0.1, well I did not escape from all ads but I am not rely only on browser addons(take some work on cpu), also I like host idea because I can control it and block before enter on pc, not on browser, I put the list from here:
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
now I see another list who seems good too:
http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt

I know this lists are not forever,I must check periodical for changes, but I want to know if are another, maybe, best list(updated periodical).

Look like the one from malwaredomainlist.com it is to aggressive, even yahoo messenger will not connect, so I will stay with http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt for now, maybe athers will post their finds.