Comments on: Find Windows system uptime from the command line

By: alMubarmij

alMubarmij — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:06:16 +0000

I have the same problem, and I upgraded my XP system for SP2 to SP3, but the problem not fixed.

Anyone has an idea for this ?

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:44:50 +0000

Doesn’t work on XP SP3 at least, find parameter is wrong it informs.

net statistics workstation | find “Statistics since”

seems to work just fine though.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:23:58 +0000

Thanks for the info on how to get system uptime.

For the record I wonder how many others got NOTHING that is N/A showing on a just booted XP on the
Sytem Up Time:
line from the systeminfo command?

Net statistics workstation

worked great though, and

DIR C:\ /ah

also good plus the added bonus of being at the level of technical trivia knowledge.

Jay

By: Andy N

Andy N — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:10:40 +0000

Uptime.exe from the NT4 Resource Kit – It “does what it says on the tin”, and also calculates availability statistics for arbitrary time horizons. Haven’t tried it under 2K8 yet.

By: Sahmeepee

Sahmeepee — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:05:24 +0000

WMI is rather good too. Here’s the wmi version using the native tool WMIC:

wmic OS Get LastBootUpTime | findstr +

(advantage: outputs in ISO date format)

By: aig1979

aig1979 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:43:15 +0000

the net stat command will only show when the network was started. This command will work across all platforms.

Systeminfo looks like it depends on the version. You can always script it and check the version of the OS that is running. Then check the value.

By: Sahmeepee

Sahmeepee — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:04:57 +0000

I should also say that net statistics is slightly evil because it shows dates in US format, regardless of the regional settings in Windows. Why can’t everyone use ISO formats?!

By: Sahmeepee

Sahmeepee — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:02:58 +0000

The “systeminfo” and “net statistics” methods both have their own advantages:

Net statistics:

Runs more quickly
Gives the date and time the machine started*

Systeminfo:
Can be run against a remote machine (without psexec etc.)
Gives the time since the machine started*

*This depends on your preference

By: CypherBit

CypherBit — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:36:35 +0000

Indeed, I only did a quick test on Vista…why they change things like that is beyond me.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:22:33 +0000

CypherBit-

On Windows XP it’s actually
systeminfo | findstr /c:”System Up Time”

systeminfo | findstr /c:”System Boot Time”
does not return anything

-Julie