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How to Disable Automatic Updates when Running MT4 as a Windows Service

MetaTrader 4 (affectionately called MT4) is a very popular Forex trading platform. Several of our customers run the MT4 client as a Windows Service with AlwaysUp, ensuring that their trading platform operates continuously during trading hours. Automatic Updates can cause … Continue reading

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Trouble with MT4 Build 600 and AlwaysUp?

Version 4 of the popular MetaTrader trading platform (affectionately called MT4) received a major overhaul in February. This forum post describes the many improvements in that “Build 600”, but perhaps the most dramatic changes were to the data storage layer: … Continue reading

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