Windows uptime

I learned something interesting today.  If you have ever wondered what the uptime is of your Windows machine, simply drop to a command prompt and enter the following:

net statistics server | more

-or-

net statistics workstation | more

You’ll see a line that says “Statistics since .”   This is quite accurate - the alternative I’ve always used prior to this was downloading the Windows NT: Uptime.exe utility.  The utility, provided by Microsoft, says that it’s only supported on Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 2000.  But, it does in fact work on Windows XP, and I suspect it’ll work on Windows 2003.

Download:  Windows NT: Uptime.exe utility

3 Responses to “Windows uptime”

  1. Richard Says:

    Im afraid that I am going to have to ask to the source code for Windows Media Player before I run this atrocious command. That and i dont think I avhe enough system memory or a large enough page size to determine the number of minutes my computer has been on…

  2. jbctech Says:

    Was that a Microsoft joke? :)

  3. Richard Jones Says:

    No… that was a I have a crappy computer joke. :)

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