Missing hosts entry problem on Windows 10

Did exactly what you mentioned Clay…and now when I start Local…it just hangs gets stuck on the LOADING screen…but never loads.

Also I didn’t have a “hosts” file…So I created one…I did have a lmhosts.SAM file…So I changed that to lmhosts, then I renamed it after to imhosts.old (This is what windows recommended)

This is when the local load stared hanging at the startup screen.

Ik then went to ad “hosts” file…so I created that…and the imhosts file now is imhosts.old…and the startup screen still hangs and gets stuck loading…yet NEVER Loads.