You can customize the behavior of UpdatePatrol in various ways. To do this, select Setup from the File menu or Setup from the Toolbar. On the setup window, select the Network tab:

 

Network options

 

Select the Network tab to configure various network settings:

 

 

Read timeout is the maximum number of seconds UpdatePatrol should spend downloading a page before giving up.

 

Total timeout is the maximum number of seconds UpdatePatrol should spend looking up the domain name, downloading a page etc. before giving up.

 

Concurrent downloads specifies how many websites UpdatePatrol can check at the same time. Please notice that if you set this to a high value your computer may slow down noticably when UpdatePatrol is checking sites.

 

Enable online check makes UpdatePatrol try to detect an Internet connection before doing any downloads. Use this option if your PC is not permanently connected to the Internet.

 

Proxy settings

UpdatePatrol uses the same proxy configuration as Internet Explorer, so if you have configured Internet Explorer to use a proxy, so will UpdatePatrol.

 

If your proxy requires authentication (login using username and password), you will need to enter your username and password in UpdatePatrol, also if you have Internet Explorer remember your login data. The reason is that UpdatePatrol downloads data from the Internet in two ways:

 

1) It uses a high-speed download functionality that only downloads the raw page without images, style sheets etc. when doing page comparisons to save bandwidth and download time.

 

2) It uses Internet Explorer to display web pages internally, and Internet Explorer will automatically download required images and style sheets etc. when needed.

 

The Internet Explorer downloader remembers your username and password used in your normal Internet browser. The high-speed downloader cannot read the username and password from Internet Explorer as it stores the data encrypted. Therefore you need to enter the proxy username and password in UpdatePatrol as well.