Disabling Internet access for the Studio

About this task

You can disable Internet access for your Talend Studio by editing the Studio .ini file.

Warning: Do this only if you have no needs of accessing the Internet to download and install custom components, third-party libraries, and so on.

Open the Studio .ini file corresponding to your operating system, and add the following line to it:
```
-Dtalend.disable.internet=true 
```
Restart your Talend Studio.
When launched again, the Studio will not show:
- The Exchange link on the toolbar
- The Talend > Exchange node in the Preferences dialog
- The options for installing third party libraries in the Additional Packages dialog box
- The Talend News link on the welcome screen

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