Interesting LOTR, - I presume that the above method (of getting out of a 'freeze') would work with later versions of Windows, too - *if* a Telnet/SSH/Other service was running.. - as you know, that stuff [like SMB, FTP, VNC Servers etc.] is all 'built in' to Mac OS X (no doubt because of its Free-BSD UNIX base) I'm not sure that that's true of various Win versions - altho' there may be comparable Service(s).

It's certainly a *very* valuable technique for 'safely' getting out of a 'unresponsive Computer' problem under OS X. {I must add that, under 10.4/'Tiger' you can now have several users running - using 'Fast User Switching' - each in their own 'space' and remotely-accessible by *any* computer running a VNC Client (which almost any Box is capable of) - it's a bit like each person has their own personal OS X Mac [within sensible/obvious limits], whatever they are actually using - and usually any of those users can use root/admin to locate & Kill the offending Process(es) - right from the GUI !}

Amazing stuff !