DNS Client Event 1012: Error reading local hosts file

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Published on 2010-05-19T21:24:58Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 21:32 UTC
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My notebook boots extreme slowly and shows loads of the following error in the event log:

Error reading local hosts file
Source: DNS Client Events
EventID: 1012

The computer is quite new, I kind of just finished installing. So I don't feel like installing everything again (especially since this probably would result in the same problem anyway).

Any idea how to resolve this?

Thanks, Sam

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