I always envied linux and Macs because they have an uptime feature. This uptime feature will tell you how long your system has been running since last boot.

Out of curiosity, I swarmed Microsoft's website to look for a way to look for uptime in Windows. Well it paid off. You can download a program that will tell you exactly that. You can download it here

You must place this file in your Windows directory. Then go to Start/Rum and type in CMD. At the command prompt, type in "uptime." Wallah, Now you can prove to your friends that it is possible for a Windows box to have an uptime longer than a week.

I don't think this program will work with 95, and 98.


If you have any questions, I would be happy to answer them.

BTW, I have WinXp and have an uptime of 20 hours. I wonder how long I can go without a reboot.

Good find.

BTW, you should check out CoolMon. It also gives you uptime, as well as other useful info (temps, fan speeds, memory and CPU usage--all fully customizable) and displays all this stuff right on your desktop. Nifty little thing.

http://coolmon.arsware.org/

the SigX signatures also have that feature, as well as numerous scripts for mIRC, etc etc...

My best uptime thusfar is about... oh... 3-4 weeks. Had it turned on post-lan, shut it off for the next one.. ram scrubbers keepin it fresh.



Edit: and yeah, the uptime is low cause I shut it off for a thunderstorm that happened while I was going to work... otherwise I'd be at about 2 weeks again

I run a Halflife server, it has been up 5 weeks on XP Pro SP1. The server program HLDS.exe I restart myself every 24 hours, every time a player joins, their movements are stored in the RAM and when they leave the server, hlds doesn't clear the RAM of the playters movement.

So in effect, the more memory, the more hlds uptime. But it takes 3 sec. to restart. No biggie.

I second the notion of getting CoolMon, I have only had it about a week and I already like it better than MBM5.

You can also go control panel->network connections->local area connection or whatever you named it. You click on that and it'll show you. Not as easy as the other choices, but it's built in.

Good find crazy jay im using it..

Quote: Originally Posted by Crazy_J ... I don't think this program will work with 95, and 98. ...

Shame ... I'd like to see if anyone can beat my record of using win95 for a whole 3 hours & win98 for 6 without rebooting.

Personal best was 18 months on NT4 btw ... would have been longer but there was a power cut.

In XP so you dont have to DL anything, just go into Command Prompt and type systeminfo. It will have the uptime in there

Nice find BTW!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by Dimazz In XP so you dont have to DL anything, just go into Command Prompt and type systeminfo. It will have the uptime in there Nice find BTW!!!

I have XP home edition and that command did not work.

I'm showing 3 days 22 hours and change since my network was shut off last. I know windows has been on longer than that. Maybe around a week since I updated windows and had to restart.

most mirc scripts allow u to advertise your uptime as well. the family celeron 1.3ghz has been up for 4 months running xp home sp1 serving files. my system, xp pro sp1, has been up for a max of 40minutes. i just formated.

OK nvm, that only works in XP PRO