3 Ways To Find Windows Uptime

You might have often wondered about how long has Windows been running since last started and also if there is a way to find out the exact uptime.

Here are 3 ways to do this :

First Way :

This is through a Windows sidebar that automatically collects and displays Window uptime info.

Download any of them from here.

Second Way :

This is via Task Manager.

Bring it up via (Start > Run > taskmgr) or right click on Taskbar and select Task Manager.

Hit the Performance Tab and look at Up Time info in System statistics.
This shows the time in hours:minutes:seconds elapsed since Windows was last booted up.

Third Way :

This is through command prompt.
Open command prompt (Start > Run > cmd)

Type  systeminfo | find “System Boot Time”

Here “find” command is piped with systeminfo command to get the required uptime info.This shows the time when Windows was last booted up.

[For a quick intro to Find command,see my earlier post here which describes using it to find specific network ports.]

All done.

So next time,you can always take a quick look at how long Windows has been up and running for documentation purposes as well as for estimating power bills. 🙂

Hope this was a useful post.

Cheers.