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Ted Springer · March 13th, 2004, 03:10 PM

Is there a way within Windows 2000 Professional to see the computer uptime? My PC has been on for a long time now and has not crashed. I know you can type in the command prompt "uptime" in XP, but that does not seem to work in 2000.

Mike Rehmus · March 14th, 2004, 12:07 AM

Uptime doesn't work in my copies of XP. Have you done this? Is it a 3rd party program?

Ted Springer · March 14th, 2004, 12:18 AM

I've seen screenshots of it:

Clicky clicky

Alex Taylor · March 14th, 2004, 03:31 AM

You don't need a third-party program, this will work in 2K and XP. Hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and go to Processes. Find 'System Idle Process' and look at the column labelled CPU Time (If you don't see this, enable it by going View > Select Columns).

Rob Belics · March 14th, 2004, 10:11 AM

Notice that screenshot says "Pyrion has been up". So the uptime is recorded by that program and has nothing to do with XP.

Do what Alex said.

George Ellis · March 14th, 2004, 11:32 AM

Check the modified date of your pagefile.sys (a hidden, system file on the root of C: usually). That should be the time the system was restarted.

Rob Lohman · March 14th, 2004, 02:17 PM

I doubt that is the case Rob. Windows actually does monitor
how long it has been running. There just isn't an easy command
to read the information. Uptime mentioned here seems to be
a program that simply displays that information.

I think Uptime is an old version from the www.sysinternals.com
site. The new version has been incorporated into PSInfo.
If you run that command line tool you get information on the
machine's uptime.

Robert Martens · March 14th, 2004, 02:32 PM

Yes, it would seem that "Pyrion Celendil" is a user's name; a user's very strange, very elvish sounding name, but a name nonetheless, being located in the "Documents and Settings" folder. Programs typically don't install themselves there.

Rob Lohman · March 14th, 2004, 02:44 PM

The program is probably installed in a common directory that
Windows automatically searches as well. Like the system32
directory.

Rob Lohman · March 18th, 2004, 10:21 AM

There's a neat little utility out that displays your uptime in realtime
on your desktop. One of Microsoft's programmers made it.

Check it out here

March 13th, 2004, 03:10 PM	#1
Ted Springer Regular Crew Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Glendale CA Posts: 328	PC Uptime? Is there a way within Windows 2000 Professional to see the computer uptime? My PC has been on for a long time now and has not crashed. I know you can type in the command prompt "uptime" in XP, but that does not seem to work in 2000.

March 14th, 2004, 12:07 AM	#2
Mike Rehmus Wrangler Join Date: May 2002 Location: Vallejo, California Posts: 4,049	Uptime doesn't work in my copies of XP. Have you done this? Is it a 3rd party program? __________________ Mike Rehmus Hey, I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel!

March 14th, 2004, 03:31 AM	#4
Alex Taylor Major Player Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Vancouver, BC Posts: 390	You don't need a third-party program, this will work in 2K and XP. Hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and go to Processes. Find 'System Idle Process' and look at the column labelled CPU Time (If you don't see this, enable it by going View > Select Columns). __________________ alextaylor.org

March 14th, 2004, 02:17 PM	#7
Rob Lohman RED Code Chef Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Holland Posts: 12,514	I doubt that is the case Rob. Windows actually does monitor how long it has been running. There just isn't an easy command to read the information. Uptime mentioned here seems to be a program that simply displays that information. I think Uptime is an old version from the www.sysinternals.com site. The new version has been incorporated into PSInfo. If you run that command line tool you get information on the machine's uptime. __________________ Rob Lohman, visuar@iname.com DV Info Wrangler & RED Code Chef Join the DV Challenge \| Lady X Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Buy from the best: DVinfo.net sponsors

March 14th, 2004, 02:44 PM	#9
Rob Lohman RED Code Chef Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Holland Posts: 12,514	The program is probably installed in a common directory that Windows automatically searches as well. Like the system32 directory. __________________ Rob Lohman, visuar@iname.com DV Info Wrangler & RED Code Chef Join the DV Challenge \| Lady X Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Buy from the best: DVinfo.net sponsors

March 14th, 2004, 12:18 AM	#3
Ted Springer Regular Crew Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Glendale CA Posts: 328	I've seen screenshots of it: Clicky clicky

March 14th, 2004, 10:11 AM	#5
Rob Belics Major Player Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: St. Louis, MO Posts: 581	Notice that screenshot says "Pyrion has been up". So the uptime is recorded by that program and has nothing to do with XP. Do what Alex said.

March 14th, 2004, 11:32 AM	#6
George Ellis Trustee Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Suwanee, GA Posts: 1,241	Check the modified date of your pagefile.sys (a hidden, system file on the root of C: usually). That should be the time the system was restarted.

March 14th, 2004, 02:32 PM	#8
Robert Martens Major Player Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Miller Place, NY Posts: 820	Yes, it would seem that "Pyrion Celendil" is a user's name; a user's very strange, very elvish sounding name, but a name nonetheless, being located in the "Documents and Settings" folder. Programs typically don't install themselves there.

March 18th, 2004, 10:21 AM	#10
Rob Lohman RED Code Chef Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Holland Posts: 12,514	There's a neat little utility out that displays your uptime in realtime on your desktop. One of Microsoft's programmers made it. Check it out here __________________ Rob Lohman, visuar@iname.com DV Info Wrangler & RED Code Chef Join the DV Challenge \| Lady X Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Buy from the best: DVinfo.net sponsors