How to stop MT4 from connecting to "Community" and "Market" tabs

Is there any way to stop MT4 from trying to connect to their services such as MQL4 Market and MQL5 Community?

I have MT4 on live accounts on a VPS and I have the VPS set up so it doesn't connect to the internet via browser for security reasons. The MT4 terminal connects fine but every time MT4 attempts to connect to their "Market" and "Community" it generates errors and most likely slows down the system by several milliseconds, if it happens while the terminal is trying to execute a trade, it could cause it to miss the original signal.

How can I turn off these attempts by MT4 to connect to services I don't even want? I don't see a way to deactivate some of the useless tabs below the terminal.

Does anyone know how to to this?

This seems to have started recently with their last one or two builds.

Tools > Options > Community tab ... then remove your credentials here.

I have that completely blank, which is probably why it's generating the error, but I don't want it to even try to connect to their "Market" or "Community" at all, is there a way to control this?

Could you please show the error you are getting.

since it takes forever to copy and paste from my VPS I've typed them...

MQL4 Market: failed to connect to server
MQL4 Market: failed to load products (send request failed [12175])
MQL5 Community: authorization failed

I think MT4 uses a browser request from the tabs below to connect to these servers. I have my VPS to not use browser requests to connect for security. It only runs MT4 for executing trades and charts, the terminal itself does not use a browser request to connect to the broker server.

I think most people would not see those errors, in fact on my home systems and laptop, since I use the browsers to use the internet, I have never seen those MT4 error messages. By default it connects those services.

Frankly, I don't want them to connect by default. I would like to be able to turn them off or connect on request.

Until now, I thought MT4 was alright. But now I see a hidden marketing side that they do not let their users control access to (or deny access to). Slowly they are monetizing not only via broker sales but retail product and signal sales and they want as many eyeballs accessing their websites selling trading services and products from 3rd parties.

Not interested at all in that junk. Just need it to execute the trading system automatically. Unless this gets addressed and resolved by them, it may be the thing that gets me thinking about eventually migrating out of MT4/MT5.

I think the problem is the access through VPS or proxy. Did you tried to uncheck the WebRequest in the experts tab of the Tools > Options ?

yeah that's all unchecked.

so I have a vps where MT4 is on, and I have that VPS set to NOT access the internet via a browser or browser http request for security and since I never use the browser on that server.

I think in several earlier versions of MT4 any requests to see the "community", "market products", or "code base", or "signal services", used to send the request to the default web browser on the computer. Now in newer versions of MT4 it has its own browser, and it's constantly connecting to MT4 pages on it's own. It's really diabolical, they should separate the "commerce" side from the "trading side".

They should have at least the option to control which tabs are open and active...let the user control which tabs they want up and open and active.

Still I not found a way to turn off MT4's ability to access their MQ Community via the net and the "Code base", "Signals" and "Market" tabs at the bottom of the client terminal window. These tabs constantly pinging the net slow down MT4 by (my guess is) several hundred milliseconds at times.

It would be nice to be able to close those tabs and just leave open the ones that matter to trading such as "Trade", "Account History", "Experts" and "Journal".

The extra unwanted net accessing by MT4 during a critical entry signal caused one of my EAs to miss an entry and have to wait a minute for the next bar to get in. Not a desirable effect, especially since I don't want to see or use their links at the bottom of the MT4 terminal.

I'm guessing that I'm one of the first to discover this "feature" of MT4. Eventually, hopefully others will notice it, or MT4 will allow those tabs to be closed and become inactive.

me too,
i want to delete such tabs.
i never click such tabs.
useless tabs.

Hi there,
I don't think you're the first one who discovered this great feature. As a Linux-user I can say that the MT4-client-terminal isn't able to connect to the MQL-community-server for several months now (I guess since November 2015). I can see it in the logfiles, also.
@Pipologist
Do you have a Linux-VPS (I guess) or windows ?
The reason for the error-message in MT4 is a change of the encryption-library. If you run MT4 under wine, MT4 can't establish https-connections anymore because wine doesn't support the new encryption-library and as an effect Linux-users can't even install metatrader at the moment because the installer is actually downloading the software via https and installing it.
(I heard of a workaround with winetricks, that can install the missing dll, I think gnutls or so).
Back to the problem:
You can't disable the connection-attempts because it is part of the software and there's no option to disable it.
So it would be better to let MT4 establish the http-connection because the connection-failure plus the error-message plus endless retries will slow down your server, metatrader and your ea. I think once the connection is established it won't harm your ea-performance anymore.
If you use windows, you should reconfigure your firewall to allow MT4 to connect to the metaquotes- website via https. If you use Wine there's only the workaround with winetricks and that didn't work for me.
I know this is no real solution but I think it's the only thing you can do at the moment (besides changing broker and software).

I have same issue on linux vps with latest mt4 1010, but no problem on windows, my temporary solution is rollback mt4 to 988 on linux vps, wish this could useful to you.

I think I found a solution the community-error-issue:
The dll that is causing the errors is secur32.dll (you can see which dll causes errors if you start metatrader through the shell). So I copied the secur32.dll into the installation-directory of metatrader (windows-programs always search first for dlls in the directory of the executed binary, so this is the easiest way to overwrite a dll) and I realised no more errors. After a 2 restarts (the first one caused a MT4-crash) metatrader was performing an upgrade to the 1010-build. On my Linux-VPS this isn't the case. It still logs these errors and it didn't upgrade.

Sorry, forgot:
The source of the secur32.dll was the C:\Windows\system32 of an existing windows 10-installation. Better do not download it from insecure sources.