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• By slippman

  I miss caffeine. i can’t use this

  i was stunned to find caffeine missing when i received my new Windows and i downloaded antiSleep. now, everytime i wake my Windows, all my usb memory drives have their connections broken, and any applications tied to them crash. i futzed with its click down menu, but i can’t seem to tune it to stop causing my external memory devices from disconnecting such that the system is warning me that i am not closing them down correctly. this isn’t something i can sit down to four or five times a day. sorry. so, in my experience, the software is broken and unusable and i guess i’ll either have to pay for one or crack open the sdk and write one myself. but i will say, since 677 users find no problems with it, either i am missing something obvious, or i am the only one that keeps necessary data for an application on a usb link. worse, if the data on the disk were to be corrupted by this, i would be up the creek. so it isn’t even safe for me to use this software. maybe i set it up wrong, but i can’t seem to figure it out from the menu, and i’ve been using software since the early 1980s, and i don’t have the patience to contact them and work through it for what is really something they introduced in replacing caffeine. i don’t like slamming coders, because i was once one, and i’m sure they’re good people. they must be. they are not writing for microsoft :-)

  
  
• By America's Critic

  I donow?. It works for me

  I read some of the reviews and I can't disagree that for some people a lock screen button might be nice and an interface that works like their brains. I just turned it on and it kept my Windows awake during some long tasks that had quit because of sleep. Price seem reasonable. After using it for awhile I bought the pro family version to encourage the developer to keep going. As with all programs I have at times it is hard to understand all the options. As I said I turned it on and left my laptop doing something and it allowed the laptop to complete the multi-hour task. Tonight I am turning on some new features that let the screen sleep and even function while the lid is closed. As with all things I may come back in a week and the computer is still on and I forgot because the screen was off and the lid closed. people do dumb stuff like this. Overall a pretty good program at a pretty good price.

  
  
• By Radjin

  It works even through Citrix

  I log in through Citrix and keeping it alive has been a pain, with each timeout I have to go through several steps to get reconnected. This app does indeed keep it active. My one problem is they monitor mousing, keyboard etc. for ergonomic purposes. With this app running it look like I never take a break and they hit me on my score getting lower. I have a suggestion; offer the option of how the mouse simulation works, moving intermitently with random pauses with a maximum value would be better. Even a single random move every ten minuets would work just fine. Moving all the time is not very realistic.

  
  
• By Dfom

  This app doesn’t work…on any of my 3 Macs

  The only function I need this app to do right is to keep my Macs from going to sleep. The app fails to perform this very basic function on 3 separate Macs. I’ve been trying unsuccessfully to get it to work for over 6 months, on 3 different vintages of Macs; old to new, with different OS versions. I played along with several updates, thinking maybe they finally got it to work? The app installs and opens without issue, and offers a dizzying array of options to supposedly control its behavior, but it just doesn’t work. To pour salt in the wound, recent updates try to de-activate the already non-functional functions, trying to force an update to the “Pro” version. I really miss Caffeine. Its simple interface always worked as intended. The publishers of Anti-Sleep should focus on making their app work, period, rather than bloating it with features that few customers need. I really don’t appreciate the Photoshop complexity, I just need the app to keep my Macs from going to sleep. This app is a great big, bloated FAIL.

  
  

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