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About Customizing Oil Change


 

Several customization options are available from the Supported Applications and Drivers dialog box. You can:

Specify a directory where Oil Change downloads updates that you want to install manually.
Specify the number of times Oil Changes tries to download an update automatically.
Create a list of products that Oil Change automatically monitors. When Oil Change finds an update for a product on the list, Oil Change notifies you. You can specify the type of notification.
Display products in the Supported Applications and Drivers dialog box that you previously hid
Control which Oil File Oil Changes watches for you.

See Also

Create an auto update product list

Specify a default folder for storing updates

Specify notification settings

Unhiding products

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Oil Files – An Oil file is created by an OEM and contains the name of the OEM’s product and all the updates available for that product. If your are using an OEM subscription, you may down load Oil Files from the OEM Web site to your computer. Oil Change "watches" the files for you and asks you if you want to download the newest files from the OEM Web site when they become available.

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OEM - OEM stands for Original Equipment Manufacture and CyberMedia uses this term to refer to a company that uses Oil Change to update a predetermined set of the OEM’s products.

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