How to Check Windows Up Time To Know How Long Your PC Has Been Turned On

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How to Check Windows Up Time To Know How Long Your PC Has Been Turned On

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Ever wondered how you could know how long your machine, laptop or desktop PC, has been up, active or when it booted?

Method 1: Check Up Time via Powershell

On your Windows PC, run Powershell as an Administrator, then run the following commands:

Get-CimInstance Win32_OperatingSystem | Select-Object LastBootUpTime
Get-WinEvent -ProviderName EventLog | Where-Object {$_.Id -eq 6005 -or $_.Id -eq 6006} | Select-Object -First 1 TimeCreated
(get-date) - (gcim Win32_OperatingSystem).LastBootUpTime

 

Method 2: Check Up Time via Task Manager

You can alternatively check your PC’s uptime using the Task Manager utility. Search and open “Task Manager” or Run [Windows Button + R] taskmgr, to open the utility. Navigate to “Performance” then “CPU” which is the first tab. (Note:// Windows 11 or 10 have different layouts)

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Look for  the text below the CPU performance graphs and check the duration your machine has been up under “Up time”. For my machine, that reads “0:14:44:15”, implying my machine has been up or booted 0 Days 14 Hours, 44 Minutes 15 Seconds and counting.

 

How to Check Windows Up Time To Know How Long Your PC Has Been Turned On
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