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October 13, 2002

Uptime for Windows 2000, 2003, XP and NT

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Almost every unix operating system comes with a utility called uptime that tells you how long your server has been running.

Unfortunitly no such tool comes with windows, but there is a pretty fool proof way to determine the date you computer was last started. Type the following in to the command prompt. 

net statistics server

It will output something like:

Server Statistics for \\PETE
Statistics since 6/9/2002 11:09 AM
The net command is very useful, it allows you to connect to shares, start services, send messages between computers and more. To learn more about it type: 
net help
Here are some examples using the net command.

List all accounts in a domain: 
net accounts /DOMAIN
Send a message to all users in the domain (a text box pops up). Replace /DOMAIN with a username to send to just one user. 
net send /DOMAIN "The server is rebooting"
Start a service 
net start "Service Name"
Stop a service 
net stop "Service Name"


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On 11/01/2004 at 10:57:25 PM MST Ashish wrote:
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Thanks a lot folks!!! This was really a shortcut compared to those perl scripts.

On 11/01/2004 at 10:58:20 PM MST Ashish wrote:
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Thanks a lot folks!!! This was really a shortcut compared to those perl scripts.

On 05/31/2005 at 12:52:17 PM MDT Pete Freitag wrote:
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Note this should also work on Windows 2003 Server

On 09/17/2005 at 6:05:13 PM MDT Kyle Fox wrote:
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You can get the uptime utility from Microsoft on this page:

http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/management/uptime/default.asp

On 01/02/2006 at 1:10:47 PM MST Christopher Lindblom wrote:
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there is a way to see the uptime in windows XP.. just bring up the cmd window, and type systeminfo.. and scroll to System uptime.. ;)

On 01/29/2006 at 2:55:24 AM MST Coopa wrote:
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Thanks Christopher Lindblom, just what I was looking for :)

On 04/04/2006 at 9:54:49 AM MDT hekp0maht wrote:
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net statistics server shows statistics for "Seerver" service, not for system, also statisctics shown since last start of service (if started at all). Christopher Lindblom offered better way.

On 05/28/2006 at 11:13:11 AM MDT sysinfo wrote:
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this will do it, open cmd and type systeminfo | find "Up Time"

On 09/20/2006 at 6:58:45 PM MDT Michael BUckingham wrote:
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Command Line for Windows uptime:

type Systeminfo at the command line prompt, scroll down to uptime.

On 10/18/2006 at 8:30:16 PM MDT Zoltan wrote:
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Thanks Christopher !

On 11/13/2006 at 3:14:21 PM MST Jay Ong wrote:
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You guys rock! Always wondered if Windows had a similiar 'Uptime' utility but never researched it until today. This is brilliant!

On 11/30/2006 at 11:23:13 AM MST Darkstar3d wrote:
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systeminfo shows uptime, but wish it was as fast as the (U|Li)nux versions.

On 01/19/2007 at 2:37:14 AM MST Anonymous wrote:
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systeminfo | grep -i uptime

:)

On 08/20/2007 at 12:22:19 PM MDT Jordan wrote:
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You can also use the systeminfo command.

On 09/29/2007 at 6:48:33 AM MDT Unix Admin wrote:
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Utilizing the unnamed pipe '|' save a lot of time in scrolling, therefore the command:

C:\>systeminfo | find "Up Time"

immediately displays the system uptime and is the best choice overall for this query.

On 10/19/2007 at 10:39:15 AM MDT minami wrote:
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You can also download UPTIME program, ex: Homepage: http://clanpkm.free.fr/K1. or search in yahoo.com or google...

On 11/27/2007 at 6:19:46 PM MST Gopi Krishna wrote:
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Thanks a lot the commands was so simple and iam grateful to the guy who posted this.

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