Software Update: Everest 2.20

Lavalys has provided Everest with an update to version 2.20. With this program a comprehensive overview can be obtained of all hardware in and software on the PC. In addition, some benchmarks can also be performed and there is hardware monitoring. In addition to the free Home Edition, there is also a Ultimate and corporate Edition. These have additional options, such as a network audit, support for various databases, and can be used remotely. However, all these goodies have to be paid for. The changelog of this release shows the following changes:

New Features

• Advanced hardware monitor with OSD panel and cooling fans monitoring
• Real-time alerting for hot-plug devices
• Portable Computer page to display mobile PC related information
• Bluetooth PAN support
• File Scanner filtering
• User benchmark results manager
• Sharpness test (Monitor Diagnostics)

Major Improvements

• Extended optical drive details, support for Blu-ray drives
• Support for ATI Radeon X800 GT, nVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT and GTX video chips
• Graphics processor details for ATI CrossFire and nVIDIA SLI multi-GPU configurations.
• Extended Intel Twin Castle E8500 server chipset details
• Several improvements under Windows PE
• Support for a lot more anti-spyware and anti-trojan utilities

Major Fixes

• Installed Programs and Windows Update list under 64-bit Windows
• Benchmark results in reporting mode
• Dynamic CPU clock measurement on DualCore AMD processors
• SMART information for more than 4 drives
• Monitors list on nVIDIA video cards
• Extended PCI bus scanning
• Out of memory error in Audit Manager
• Incompatibility with Windows 95

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