The other day a client wanted to find out if his Windows machines were rebooting over the weekend. They had a scheduled task to apply updates and reboot. He wanted to quickly find uptime on Windows. I found some options:
Command line to find uptime on Windows
- Open your command line
- Type Systeminfo | find “Boot Time”
You should see something like:
Days: 9 Hours: 11 Minutes: 20 Seconds: 12You can also query a remote Windows machine, but it seems to take longer to get results:
systemsinfo /S "machineName" | find "Boot Time"Use the Task Manager to find uptime on Windows
- Open your task manager
- Expand ‘More Details’
- Go to Performance
- CPU
- See on the bottom ‘Up time’
Another way tricky way
This command is a bit tricky and I still need to find out how to read the results:
C:\Users\Tom> wmic path Win32_OperatingSystem get LastBootUpTime
LastBootUpTime
20240323020044.500000-240After putting this brief tutorial together I decided to brew a good cup of Caturra coffee at home and head out for a walk.
As usual, you can contact me if you have questions or like to collaborate.