How to turn off N.A. self-update [Update 2024-05-22]

There are several other ways of stopping a program from accessing the internet. You could block it from Windows Firewall, from your router, from the Windows hosts file, unplug your network cable

And yet that is not what people have been asking. What people have been asking is how to turn off the self-update in Native Access (including for 3.xx legacy versions of N.A.) so that is what I have done.

Next to Hayo_NI and the team building in the functionality into N.A. then my solution is not only the most simple 'mod' but possibly also one that could be used cross platform (provided that the same file exists in Mac and that Mac equivalent Hosts file allow for similar redirect ?) and on top of that then as long as the equivalent file exists on older versions of N.A. then it might work also for those 3.xx 'legacy' versions. So frankly I find my solution both a rather simple solution but also a very elegant one. As long as no update is pending then it doesn't even require a renaming of the 'pending' directory. Your suggestions in most cases are dependent on setup specifics , hardware or OS where as my 'mod' stay on specific topic. So please let us not have to waste time discussing your angle or your 'take' on this here , rather then if you are so eager to provide alternative solutions then maybe you should have made/make your own thread with your own good ideas/take/topic on the subject a long time ago ?

Here topic is : Does it work ? For how many versions of N.A. does it work ? Does it work on Mac ? What are the equivalent Mac path(s) ? What is the down sides ? (does it in fact turn off all updating or only the self-update ?) And so on..