How to find the system uptime in Windows Vista/Server 2008/XP/2003

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Finding the uptime in Windows Vista/XP or Windows Server 2008/2003 is not as straight forward as running the command “uptime” in Linux or Unix. However, it isn’t difficult either.

There are two ways to find the system uptime in Windows Vista/Server 2008/XP/2003.

1 Using Systeminfo utility

The Systeminfo utility shows you the system boot time. The time originally the system was booted and running from.

To run the command,

1. Click Start – search and type “cmd” (Start – Run, cmd in Windows XP/2003). This should launch the command prompt.

2. From the command prompt, type “systeminfo“. This should check various system stats like installation date, hotfixes etc. Look for the “System boot time” as follows:
systeminfo

2 Using “net statistics” command

The “net” command can perform various operations and one of them is the system statistics of a workstation or a server.

From the command prompt run, the following command

c:\>net statistics workstation

This will run a check and provide with the system statistics. Look for the line which reads as “statistics since” where it indicates the stats are from the last system startup time as follows:

Netstat

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hey man thanks this was helpful.

i knew this from before but i forgot and wanted to know it again.

Comment by mujtaba on December 10, 2008 @ 7:08 am

Hi,
Thx alot it was really useful. Could you pls pass all commnads related to AD,DNS,DHCP and troubleshooting technique to me.
Your help will be much appreciated.
Guys, it’s really wonderful and helpful, when you will facing issue.

THANKS
Anil Mehta

Comment by Anil Mehta on January 28, 2009 @ 8:40 am

Hi All,

Oh yes really it was a great recall, some times you know every thing but it is not on your finger tips, so really thanks again

warm regards.
Rizwan Qureshi

Comment by Rizwan Qureshi on April 12, 2009 @ 10:31 am

Mine (XP Pro SP3) doesn’t list boot time.

Comment by Ouroborus on August 27, 2009 @ 3:49 pm

You can also use:

C:\> systeminfo | find “Up Time”

It imediately displays the system uptime without additional informations from systeminfo command.

Comment by Anonymous on January 8, 2010 @ 6:34 pm

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