Uptime In Windows

      by Wyatt Walter

One of the many things that has annoyed me about Windows is the lack of an “uptime” utility like UNIX or Linux machines. There are a lot of scenarios where I need to find out quickly the last time the system had been rebooting without having to grep through logs.. err.. scroll through the Event Viewer. One trick that I picked up recently was that the systeminfo utility will tell you the uptime and you can parse out all the extra junk. I know this tip works on Windows 2003 Server and Windows XP, but I don’t have access to a lot of other Windows platforms (and didn’t bother checking earlier ones). You can simply run from a command prompt: systeminfo | find “Up Time”.

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Filed under How-Tos / Tips : Comments (1) : Dec 11th, 2008

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