AntiFreeze 1.01

2.6 out of 5 stars 2.6 (19 votes)

(November 17, 2009)

Windows 2003/Vista/XP / Freeware / 1,022 downloads

AntiFreeze is an emergency task manager for unresponsive or hanging systems. It is a utility with a very small footprint, sitting in your tray and waiting for you to press the hotkey combination (ALT+CTRL+WIN+HOME by default). You should use it only in emergency situations, consider it an alternative for the reset button.

Currently AntiFreeze is free for non-commercial use only.

Reviews of AntiFreeze

  1. 1 out of 5 stars
    Cekay

    Reviewing 1.00 (Oct 23, 2008)

    I gess the release date is stated wrong, should be pronounced as the 1. april :)
    Stay away!

  2. 1 out of 5 stars
    tannenwheel

    Reviewing 1.00 (Nov 10, 2007)

    omg, it's true what the other reviewers say, listen to them, lol.

    this is meant to freeze (suspend) the whole system and i appreciate this fresh inovation in the dirty buisness of killing tasks.

    but it not only just shows it's about dialogue instead of its main window (giving an error about invalid image size, prior to that) but also suspends itself (plus the mouse, almost), thus effectively blocking any option but that of hitting the reset button. which i did after waiting a minute for it to respond in anyway to my helpless mousclicks. lol. good entertainment.

    i still like the idea, though. please make it work. and tell if it works, cause i won't try again.

  3. 1 out of 5 stars
    NunjaBusiness

    Reviewing 1.00 (Nov 10, 2007)

    Worthless and huge resource hog.

  4. 1 out of 5 stars
    The MAZZTer

    Reviewing 1.00 (Nov 10, 2007)

    Is this program a joke? Pressing its hotkey brings up its about dialog.

    It suspends all processes, and all input devices run as slow as mollasses. I got Process Explorer running but it wouldn't work properly, probably because most of Windows was FROZEN by this program.

    I eventually had to hit my reset button. This program should have been called Plain Water, not AntiFreeze, as it fits the program's functionality better.

    For the record I am running XPSP2.

    [EDIT: I believe now this occurs when suspending certain processes, even a user's desktop-interactive processes. In my case, suspending TaskSwitchXP causes the entire computer to pretty much deadlock. I will look into this more. It might also occur with the similar MS PowerToy, CoolSwitch.]

  5. 2 out of 5 stars
    GSMAN

    Reviewing 1.00 (Nov 10, 2007)

    I had the same problems, system lockup, no interface to see what was happening.
    Tried it a second time after reboot, same thing.
    I don't run an anti-virus though,most all I have is on-demand, had to make sure Sunbelt firewall had proper rules for it.

    I attributed it to the SP2 requirement.

    Should be written for all XP versions if possible, a few of us don't need the xtra baggage MS piles on month after month.

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