Windows OS – 3 easy ways to see the Uptime

3 ways in which you can quickly and easily find out how long your PC has been running since the last restart or when the computer was last booted.

cmd – net statistics workstation showing Windows Uptime since

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net statistics workstation showing Windows Uptime since ...
net statistics workstation showing Uptime since …

cmd – systeminfo showing last Boot Time

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systeminfo showing Windows Uptime through Boot Time
systeminfo showing Boot Time

Taskmanager showing Uptime for how many h:mm:ss

This requires you to open the Taskmanager. You can open the taskmanager using ctrl+alt+del and click on open the taskmanager, with newer Windows OS by rightclicking the taskbar or by entering the command tskmgr in the cmd

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Taskmanager showing the Uptime
Taskmanager showing the Up time

This works perfectly on Windows Server 2025. If you haven’t started with Windows Server vNext yet, than start here today.

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