Have you ever smashed the PC keyboard or mouse on the desk in wild frustration because something did not work out as you wanted? Or maybe you have given the PC case a kick or smashed your fist on the monitor? We all have probably experienced situations where frustration got overboard. The free software Stress Relief has been designed exactly for those situations, and fun.
It basically turns the desktop into a destructible environment. Stress Relief gives the user nine different tools at hand to destroy windows, programs and other elements on the desktop. Tools range from a blow torch to a chainsaw, hammer or machine gun.
All tools are accessible after starting the portable application. The mouse is used for moving the item on the screen, the left mouse button to trigger its action and the right for the menu which displays the available tool list.
Tools can also be switched by pressing a number between 1 and 9 on the keyboard.
The destruction is only temporary, it lasts until the application is closed again. The tools work on all windows and elements that are open on the desktop currently, excellent to give that Excel spreadsheet a beating, or the picture of your ex on Facebook.
Stress Relief 2 is a portable software for Windows that is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit editions of the Windows operating system. It can be downloaded from Freeware Files.
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In 33 years working with home computers (vic 20, cpm machines, etc..) and computers, etc i have had my fair chair of frustrations/ problems with systems (think in the beginning lost of data because the next model did not supplied a data conversion possibility, etc., etc.. ) trough the years. And i ferry proud to say i never ever feel even slighty the urge, to destroy anything. I am still seeing every problem as a change to grow and hopefully I will never, need some infantile (like this) software to make me feel better. Even writhing a small comment like this makes me feel great. So thanks Martin for given me this opportunity.
Avira’s Antivir is finding a trojan (joke.stressreducer) in the zip file.
This might be a false positive as they also deny access to Sysinternals Bluescreen screen saver.
This thing is like, really, really old…
I remember software like what is described in the article herein from the period when Windows 3.1 was being used.
There was also software that would turn the simulated destruction into somewhat of a game by adding things to destroy (such as animations of bugs).
Somewhat amusing.
I can confirm Dave’s posting about this harmless app being flagged as a trojan (joke.stressreducer). So many AVs do this that I just place it exceptions as a force of habit.
About six years ago I contracted out to a firm where the IT director would drop this app into a user’s system folder every now an then so the client AV would generate an alert which he would dutifully then go “fix.” Since he was also a major shareholder in the company and I wanted to continue my life as a contractor I decided the best course of action was to remain silent.
I don’t want anyone getting any ideas, now…
Cute – I never saw this before.
old, but still good.
I remember playing this game when I was 8.
I’m 18.
And it was probably there before you were 8!!!
:D, i USE to lurv this when i was like 6-7 i started the computer when 5 years old n my brother shown tihs to me when i was 6 n i started like smashing everything n puting bugs everywhere n smashing them with the stamp n im 16 now n still play it its fun :)