Checking uptime in Win2K

RedFox1

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Quick question,

Is there a way to find out how long a machine has been running in Windows 2000 (Professional)?

Thanks,
RedFox1
 

FOBSIDE

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CTRL-ALT-DLT

check your PROCESSES and your SYSTEM IDLE PROCESS should be your up time.
 

kyoshozx

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That isn't the most accurate way to check a computer's uptime.
Do you have a network card? If you do right click on network neighborhood, properties. Then double click on your local area connection. IT will display the duration you were connected to the network.

use both and compare, if the machine was up for a long time, the times will definately not match the reason being is when your system is at 100% cpu usage the timer for the idle process will stop.
 

err

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Yeah , I love uptime.exe the most. It provides a detailed logs of your uptime history. The catch is: Uptime relies on your event logs, so you might want to increase your event logs size to get a longer history period.

This is one example of detailed uptime.exe report. It even works well on other network machine.

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D:\>uptime -a
Uptime Report for: \\E2W2KPRO

Current OS: Microsoft Windows 2000, Service Pack 1, Uniprocessor Free.
Time Zone: Pacific Standard Time

System Events as of 12/16/2000 4:45:11 AM:

Date: Time: Event: Comment:
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10/25/2000 1:59:56 AM Boot
10/25/2000 7:22:19 PM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 17h:22m:23s
10/25/2000 7:23:35 PM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:1m:16s
10/26/2000 1:45:25 AM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 6h:21m:50s
10/26/2000 1:46:22 AM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:0m:57s
10/26/2000 1:59:47 AM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 0h:13m:25s
10/26/2000 2:00:59 AM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:1m:12s
10/26/2000 2:10:12 AM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 0h:9m:13s
10/26/2000 2:11:03 AM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:0m:51s
10/26/2000 2:39:17 AM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 0h:28m:14s
10/26/2000 2:40:14 AM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:0m:57s
10/26/2000 3:05:47 AM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 0h:25m:33s
10/26/2000 3:06:48 AM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:1m:1s
10/26/2000 3:14:25 AM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 0h:7m:37s
10/26/2000 3:15:25 AM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:1m:0s
10/26/2000 3:37:36 AM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 0h:22m:11s
10/26/2000 3:39:09 AM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:1m:33s
10/26/2000 3:47:25 AM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 0h:8m:16s
10/26/2000 3:48:25 AM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:1m:0s
10/26/2000 4:30:20 AM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 0h:41m:55s
10/26/2000 4:31:16 AM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:0m:56s
10/26/2000 8:50:17 PM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 16h:19m:1s
10/26/2000 8:51:11 PM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:0m:54s
10/26/2000 9:10:40 PM Boot
10/26/2000 9:25:23 PM Bluescreen STOP 0x000000d1
10/26/2000 9:25:22 PM Boot
10/27/2000 12:25:58 AM Bluescreen STOP 0x000000d1
10/27/2000 12:25:57 AM Boot
10/29/2000 4:49:32 AM Shutdown
10/29/2000 4:50:23 AM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:0m:51s
10/29/2000 12:27:06 PM Boot
10/30/2000 8:48:59 PM Shutdown
10/30/2000 8:49:47 PM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:0m:48s
10/30/2000 8:58:23 PM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 0h:8m:36s
10/30/2000 8:59:11 PM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:0m:48s
10/30/2000 9:04:24 PM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 0h:5m:13s
10/30/2000 9:05:15 PM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:0m:51s
10/30/2000 9:10:03 PM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 0h:4m:48s
10/30/2000 9:10:59 PM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:0m:56s
10/30/2000 9:13:53 PM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 0h:2m:54s
10/30/2000 9:14:52 PM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:0m:59s
10/31/2000 6:28:00 PM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 21h:13m:8s
10/31/2000 6:45:17 PM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:17m:17s
10/31/2000 6:47:14 PM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 0h:1m:57s
10/31/2000 6:53:27 PM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:6m:13s
10/31/2000 6:55:59 PM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 0h:2m:32s
10/31/2000 6:56:50 PM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:0m:51s
11/2/2000 5:19:59 PM Boot
11/2/2000 5:44:11 PM Shutdown
11/2/2000 6:04:57 PM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:20m:46s
11/2/2000 10:48:20 PM Boot
11/3/2000 6:54:41 PM Boot
11/4/2000 3:28:15 PM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 20h:33m:34s
11/4/2000 3:28:58 PM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:0m:43s
11/5/2000 3:40:04 AM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 12h:11m:6s
11/5/2000 3:48:17 AM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:8m:13s
11/5/2000 3:50:37 AM Boot
11/5/2000 3:57:14 AM Boot
11/5/2000 4:42:19 AM Boot
11/5/2000 4:28:01 PM Boot
11/5/2000 8:54:18 PM Boot
11/5/2000 11:37:10 PM Boot
11/6/2000 3:12:39 AM Boot
11/6/2000 5:50:27 AM Boot
11/6/2000 5:59:57 AM Boot
11/7/2000 7:30:16 PM Boot
11/12/2000 4:04:19 AM Shutdown Prior uptime:4d 8h:34m:3s
11/12/2000 4:05:35 AM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:1m:16s
11/12/2000 4:07:12 AM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 0h:1m:37s
11/12/2000 4:08:25 AM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:1m:13s
11/13/2000 9:48:27 PM Boot
11/13/2000 10:59:25 PM Shutdown
11/13/2000 11:00:16 PM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:0m:51s
11/13/2000 11:04:02 PM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 0h:3m:46s
11/13/2000 11:04:59 PM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:0m:57s
11/15/2000 5:13:44 AM Boot
11/15/2000 8:06:43 AM Shutdown
11/15/2000 8:07:55 AM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:1m:12s
11/16/2000 10:02:49 AM Shutdown Prior uptime:1d 1h:54m:54s
11/16/2000 10:03:49 AM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:1m:0s
11/16/2000 10:12:50 PM Bluescreen STOP 0x0000001e
11/16/2000 10:12:50 PM Boot
11/16/2000 10:19:53 PM Shutdown
11/16/2000 10:20:53 PM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:1m:0s
11/19/2000 3:49:30 PM Bluescreen STOP 0x0000001e
11/19/2000 3:49:30 PM Boot
11/19/2000 3:52:45 PM Bluescreen STOP 0x0000001e
11/19/2000 3:52:44 PM Boot
11/20/2000 3:07:37 AM Boot
11/20/2000 4:06:01 AM Boot
11/20/2000 6:29:26 PM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 14h:23m:25s
11/20/2000 6:40:38 PM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:11m:12s
11/20/2000 7:18:14 PM Boot
11/20/2000 10:52:30 PM Boot
11/21/2000 4:33:06 AM Boot
11/27/2000 1:53:05 AM Shutdown
11/27/2000 1:53:15 AM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:0m:10s
11/27/2000 2:21:08 AM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 0h:27m:53s
11/27/2000 2:22:00 AM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:0m:52s
11/28/2000 2:15:34 AM Boot
11/28/2000 8:51:18 AM Shutdown
11/28/2000 8:52:44 AM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:1m:26s
12/3/2000 5:46:39 AM Shutdown Prior uptime:4d 20h:53m:55s
12/3/2000 5:47:57 AM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:1m:18s
12/3/2000 8:25:38 AM Boot
12/3/2000 2:57:02 PM Shutdown
12/3/2000 2:58:13 PM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:1m:11s
12/4/2000 4:00:43 AM Boot
12/4/2000 7:06:01 AM Boot
12/7/2000 2:55:10 PM Shutdown Prior uptime:3d 7h:49m:9s
12/7/2000 2:56:00 PM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:0m:50s
12/7/2000 3:05:59 PM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 0h:9m:59s
12/7/2000 3:07:06 PM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:1m:7s
12/7/2000 5:47:45 PM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 2h:40m:39s
12/7/2000 5:54:46 PM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:7m:1s
12/7/2000 11:46:26 PM Shutdown Prior uptime:0d 5h:51m:40s
12/7/2000 11:47:22 PM Boot Prior downtime:0d 0h:0m:56s

Current System Uptime: 8 day(s), 4 hour(s), 58 minute(s), 16 second(s)


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Since 10/25/2000:

Total Reboots: 72
Mean Time Between Reboots: 0.72 days
Total Bluescreens: 5
Total Application Failures: 0

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Since 12/4/2000:

System Availability: 99.9422%
Total Uptime: 11d 21h:29m:16s
Total Downtime: 0d 0h:9m:54s
Total Reboots: 5
Mean Time Between Reboots: 2.38 days
Total Bluescreens: 0
Total Application Failures: 0


Notes:
12/4/2000 is the earliest date in the event log where
sufficient information is recorded to calculate availability.

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