About Options
You can change or adjust several factors that affect how Oil Change works using the Options feature. The following table contains a list of the Configuration Options tabs and what you can do on each tab.
Table 1. Configuration Option tabs
| To do this | Choose this tab |
| Update user profile information | User Profile |
| Clear the Oil Change disk cache. You have to do this when information, vital to the operation of Oil Change, becomes corrupted. | Cleanup |
| Clear any scans that you may have scheduled. | Cleanup |
| Delete any updates that you have downloaded but haven’t installed. | Cleanup |
| Remove the data in the Oil Change History feature | Cleanup |
| Select or reconfigure your Internet connection. | Connection |
| Let Oil Change determine how you connect to the Internet. | Connection |
| Configure proxy server settings if you connect to the Internet through a proxy server. | Connection |
| Schedule when Oil Change scans your hard drive for applications and drivers. | Scan |
| Set background scan options. | Scan |
| Activate the Undo feature. | Undo |
| Determine how long Oil Change keeps backup files needed to undo an update before deleting them from your computer’s hard drive. | Undo |
| Specify a folder for Oil Change to use to store backup files needed to undo an update. | Undo |
You can access Options from the main Oil Change window.
A cache refers to a certain amount of space set aside on your computer's hard drive where Oil Change stores various kinds of information that help it perform job. This information can become corrupt, or the cache get full. You can clean out the cache using the Cleanup tab.
