Did it happen on you? You’ve been working on a project for some time when your computer suddenly hangs. You do not know when was the last time that you’d saved, but you would very much prefer not to hit the reset button, even though by the looks of it it seems that that’s going to be inevitable. The mouse is still moving, but the task manager is not coming up, and everything is frozen. Now there is AntiFreeze,  a new innovative life-saver utility which helps you in situations where you find your computer locked up. AntiFreeze is an emergency task manager which offers s a last recourse when you find your computer in a hung state.

Invoked by a hotkey combination (CTRL-Win-Alt-Home), it will “put to sleep all running programs except the most critical ones”, with the objective of giving you back the ability to intervene and close problematic programs. The Antifreeze console will announce that it has disabled all but the critical Windows processes, and will allow you to shut down the other applications/processes. It will display a list that shows the memory and CPU usage of apps and processes.
According to the Antifreeze help file, Antifreeze works well if the computer hangs or becomes unresponsive due to the following :
*One or more programs are engaged in intensive tasks and consume too much processor cycles, causing the system to become unresponsive
*One or more programs consume so much memory that the swapping file is heavily used, overloading the system
*Programs are running with a scheduling priority which is so high that they consume all processor resources
*Too many programs are running at the same time and they all have to compete for attention from the processor.

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Friday, January 9th, 2009 at 3:11 am | by Kur-nia-one |