DNSCACHE

 OK a warning to people reading technical stuff about windows:
The version they have or the year they lived in must be different.

Or, lettuce totally imagine that our brave new government Needs the cache to know where you've been.

Whatever!
Disabling DNSCACHE kills the internet good unless you happen to know the fancy address (192.168.yada-whatever)

But this cannot be true, surely those smart people misspoke or left out a step?

I will edit this (on my *keyboard*, ain't no flies on me)

In context, a guy was discussing the HOSTS file, in a technical forum.
My particular riddle to google was, How do I block full page ads without waking up "Admiral".

If the site is paywalled, fine except they continually worm their way onto Google's front page.

So yeah.Hosts files and scripts are available but it's extremely dangerous running scripts, so I just read his batch file and disabled DNS cache.
Wrongggg!!! something must be enabled first, like maybe a long list of addresses.

yeahbutt they wrote it that way on purpose, and they didn't have to.

Read it and be damned forever (but we're not pushy)

I swear I edited this. O well. 
Here is my reprint:

Scripts from helpful people are dangerous, period.
Some of my Best programs are from homegrown programs.

I am not technically oriented and I could not tell a malicious script from an honest one.

Anyway.

"HOSTS" must be modified to include the latest trends in Ads and websites that monitor you
In other words, a site known for being overly generous with cookies might be redirected to nowhere.
THEN

A program must be downloaded (for sites like CBS and NBC news) that obliterates the blocking that those trillionaire companies do, to make even more money.

So CPE (in the picture) seems to work.
My hosts file used to be 600K Big (HUGE)
And now it's 300K (??)
But it seems to work.
I need to shop around for decent, well recommended hosts files that don't come from guys with hoods on.

Well, the computer could'a said something.

Yes it was "fused", yes, the breaker in the laptop eventually reset, but for a while I thought that the tiny single USB-C port had died!

I was going through the five stages of grief when it came back.

See, um, 

My very expensive Anker Supply worked great but I wanted to put it away to use my generic USB 65w supply from Amazon.

It worked maybe for a few seconds and killed the port!

*Eventually* (20 minutes?) having the anker back (and me using all the voodoo and spare parts I have)

made it work again, but when you power a laptop (I guess) using USB, don't get cheap.

I'm not even sure it's totally back...everything works, it says "Plugged in" but charging stays at 96%.

Oh, wait, eons later it's 99%.