How Long Has Your Windows XP System Been Running?

Soulio · 05-02-2008, 12:21 PM

How Long Has Your Windows XP System Been Running?

Here's how you verify system uptime:

Click Start | Run and type cmd to open a command prompt.
At the prompt, type systeminfo

Scroll down the list of information to the line that says System Up Time.

This will tell you in days, hours, minutes and seconds how long the system has been up.

Note that this command only works in XP Pro, not in XP Home. You can, however, type net statistics workstation at the prompt in Home. The first line will tell you the day and time that the system came online.

ebrand · 05-03-2008, 10:46 AM

If any programmers read this then the GetTickCount API function retrieves the time in milliseconds since the system was started (all Windows platforms).

Mind you they probably would know that.

Tripleeagle · 05-03-2008, 11:06 AM

Why would you want to know by the nearest millisecond? :S

ebrand · 05-03-2008, 11:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tripleeagle

Why would you want to know by the nearest millisecond? :S

It's just the way the API works - the post was directed at programmers who are not too familiar with API - GetTickCount needs no parameters so is very simple. Changing milliseconds into hours, minutes, seconds isn't too difficult.