Everest Free! Perhaps it's time for a change?

It seems to me that this once excellent and still free system info program has seen it's day due to it's not being updated since Aug. 05. I wonder why folks are still recommending this 2.20 free version instead of the fairly up to date 5.30.1900 trial version instead.

The old one can't compete at all anymore for current machines. A case in point is my relatively aged Intel quad machine, it doesn't identify it as a quad in the summary, tells me that I have 3 out of 4 cores pinned, WRONG, doesn't know my mobo or BIOS etc.

Let's move on to recommending the newest trial offering then, it has a one month trial period which should be good enough for anyone and you might be able to get it for free too if you sign up for the spam shown on the site, I haven't tried it.

Many folks here either don't know their exact hardware, like new folks with pre-builts or have built their own machines and can rattle off the stats by heart, like me.:-D Everest is still the best for me though the $35 price is a tad excessive for my needs. I'll stick to the trial.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/EVEREST_Free_Edition_d4181.html
http://www.majorgeeks.com/EVEREST_Ultimate_Edition_d4876.html
http://www.majorgeeks.com/EVEREST_Ultimate_Edition_BETA_d6235.html

For those that want to complete their offer for a full version, let us know what happens please and please create a new e-mail address first? I don't want to be blamed for any spam that may ensue.:-D

http://www.lavalys.com/products.php?ps=UE&lang=en&page=48

 

Thanks for the heads-up, but SIW tells me what I need to know.(and FREE to boot).

 

If it's free then why doesn't it work without accepting the Uniblue registry add-on? I'll be deleting that post haste. Other than that, it's a nice Everest styled sys info proggy without the [trial-blocked] entries of Everest. I still don't like the Uniblue need but I'll wait on making a judgment.

Thanks for the input as the old 2.20 Everest isn't the only game in town but for some obscure reason is so here.:confused

 

A case of "To each, his own."?:wave

 

Another worth a look is PC Wizard. Armed with that and Belarc Advisor there's not much you can't find.

 

Thanks for pointing out PCWizard. I already use Belarc Advisor

Bazza

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Ditto. I'll check out PC Wizard also.

I did like the way the Everest GUI was set up, though . . . I'm going to miss the program.

 

My personal favorite is Speccy

http://majorgeeks.com/Speccy_d6358.html
Its also a freebie and easy to use.

 

PC Wizard does allow the user to create logs in a number of formats, including text. Belarc does not though as far as I can see. All you can do is save the webpage it outputs to.

 

You've lost me Halo. Why use these programs for finding drivers when Device Manager has it all? Having said that, PC Wizard rarely shows anything on its Driver tab, and even when it does you can't save it as text. Not the right program for you for sure

 

sorry to drudge up a month old post, but maybe this can be discussed further? I still prefer the older/free version. it may not identify # of cores, etc, but it will still properly show the name/series/type of proc. (ex. q6600, ...) And I don't like seeing [trial version] in the newer reports.

I, too, will check out the others, and maybe come up with another suggestion.

 

I apologize, as this thread is getting a little old now, but the topic is still interesting to me. I haven't been trolling the forums much recently, so if there's another topic or anything like that, I apologize. enought babbling.

attached is a the text output from pcwizard. It seems to be promising. My only gripe is that you are asked to install the ask.com toolbar.

 

Which can always be removed.