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I have the "add automatically" feature of the DNS Accelerator checked, but it is not working.

TweakMASTER Knowledge Base article KB0084

TweakMASTER's DNS Acceleration feature is designed to add host names to the hosts list from Internet Explorer. This feature will not work with Netscape, Opera or the AOL browser. It has to do with the way Microsoft IE is integrated into the Windows operating system.

In order for this feature to work, you must have the following items checked on the DNS Accelerator Options tab:

* Enable DNS Accelerator
* Automatically add host names from Internet Explorer

You can set the Update schedule as often as you like. And as for the number of entries we generally do not recommend maintaining a hosts list more than 200 entries.

If TweakMASTER is not adding host names automatically to Internet Explorer, yet you have the feature enabled, this may be due to the following situation.

This feature is dependent on a file called TweakBHO.dll installed with TweakMASTER which passes host names to the DNS Accelerator. This file must be registered during the installation process and then it should work as intended. There are certain third party utiltities such as "BHO Cop" which unregister BHO files since these are often used by "spyware" to track IE activity. If you have unregistered TweakBHO.dll, then this feature with the DNS Accelerator cannot work.

Reinstalling the program should fix this, but if you use the BHO Cop utility or something like it again, then the problem will persist. There is only one fix for this: do not use these third party utilities.