Lavalys is a privately held company from Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. This company is the provider of software products popular amongst computer enthusiasts. It's flagship products are EVEREST Ultimate Edition and EVEREST Corporate Edition. These software are designed for everyday use as well as use in working environment. EVEREST, previously known as AIDA32

AIDA32

AIDA32 is a discontinued freeware system information, diagnostics, and auditing program written by Tamás Miklós that runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems, not dissimilar to System Information for Windows . It displays detailed information on the components of a computer. Information can be...

, has been developed since 2003. At first, the software was known as EVEREST Home Edition but it also was discontinued and replaced by a purchasable version: EVEREST Ultimate Edition.

Products

The software products of this company are mostly used for computer diagnostics, system profiling

System profiler

A system profiler is a program that can provide detailed information about the software installed and hardware attached to the computer. Typically workstations and personal computers have had system profilers as a common feature since the mid-1990s....

, benchmark

Benchmark (computing)

In computing, a benchmark is the act of running a computer program, a set of programs, or other operations, in order to assess the relative performance of an object, normally by running a number of standard tests and trials against it...

, overclocking

Overclocking

Overclocking is the process of operating a computer component at a higher clock rate than it was designed for or was specified by the manufacturer, but some manufacturers purposely underclock their components to improve battery life. Many people just overclock or 'rightclock' their hardware to...

, network audit and troubleshooting. It provides the user with information about their computer like the hardware and software installed, the licenses of the software and many more information. The EVEREST software now supports a total of more than 100 000 hardware devices. All Lavalys products are shareware

Shareware

The term shareware is a proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience. Shareware is often offered as a download from an Internet website or as a compact disc included with a...

; this means users can download the trial version prior to purchasing the full version.