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Windows 10: How to See System Uptime

Windows 10: How to See System Uptime

By Mitch Bartlett 10 Comments

If you’re curious to see how long a Microsoft Windows 10 system has been powered on without a restart, you’ll want to learn how to see system uptime. This information is useful to system administrators if they want to see if a reboot has been applied to the system recently. You can do so using one of these two methods.

Option 1 – From Task Manager

  1. Bring up the Task Manager by right-clicking the clock in the lower-right corner of the taskbar and selecting Task Manager. Alternately, you could press CTRL + ALT +Delete.
  2. Select the “Performance“ tab. If you cannot see tabs, select the “More details” option.
  3. You can see system uptime located toward the bottom of the window. This will provide you with a live time period on how long the system has been on.
    Win 8 task manager with system uptime

Option 2 – Net Statistics Command

You can also see system uptime by using the command prompt.

  1. Select “Start“.
  2. Type “cmd“, then press “Enter“.
  3. Type “net statistics workstation“, then press “Enter“.
  4. Toward the top of the output, there is a line that says “Statistics Since…” that will show the time the computer last came online. It provides other data too, such as sessions accepted, amount of data sent, system errors, and print jobs spooled.

Similarly, the “net stats server” command can be used in server versions of Windows such as Windows 2016.


Option 3 – Systeminfo Command

  1. Select “Start“.
  2. Type “cmd“, then press “Enter“.
  3. Type “systeminfo“, then press “Enter“.
  4. A line labeled “System Boot Time” will be displayed.

 

That’s all there is to it! If you have any other methods or information, feel free to share them in the comments section below.

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Filed Under: Windows Tagged With: Windows 10

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Comments

  1. Cristea Octavuan says

    August 27, 2021 at 4:37 am

    I got a question, how would I delete SOME of that data?

  2. Mitch Bartlett says

    March 12, 2020 at 4:20 pm

    Did you choose Shutdown or Restart? Shutdown doesn’t actually shut down sometimes in Windows 10.

  3. Ron Mitchell says

    March 11, 2020 at 6:54 am

    Got to question the accuracy of these stats. I booted my laptop about an hour and a half ago today, the 11th March 2020.
    Task Manager says it’s been up for just over 15 hours
    Systeminfo and net statistics say that boot time was 10:22 on the 25th February.

  4. Xavier says

    December 20, 2019 at 12:44 am

    Disablinf Fast Start in the Power Options will allow a reset of the uptime at each reboot.

    Also You can also use Shift+Shutdown from the Start menu and that will clear the uptime – at the cost of taking a bit longer to start up..

  5. Richard says

    February 21, 2019 at 10:06 am

    My Win10 Pro CPU Up time is currently 3d 4h 25m in Task Manager. The seconds are incrementing with real time. I shut down Windows at close of play every day. Why is the Up time not reset?

  6. ShelLuser says

    January 29, 2019 at 12:43 am

    A better shortcut to get the task manager is control-shift-escape.

    Anyway, thanks for posting, I totally overlooked this at first :)

  7. swapnil says

    January 3, 2019 at 2:11 pm

    is it possible to have some wireless network issue, if win 10 laptop system up from 20 days and never rebooted ?

  8. Graham Cranston says

    December 19, 2018 at 9:43 am

    Note that uptime is only shown on the CPU info page of the Performance tab in Task Manager. It’s not shown for Memory or Disk.

  9. Maxime says

    September 3, 2018 at 3:39 am

    The solution using “net statistics workstation” does not always work. In my case, on my current Windows 10 system that reboot every day, the date and time displayed are 27 days in the past. I remember that have used this method for a while in Windows 7 and it worked, but it seems that the statistics “span” goes over several days now, not just today or the last start-up time.

  10. Julio Montalvo says

    August 15, 2018 at 8:54 am

    Excellent ! Thanks!

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