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
- 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.
- Select the “Performance“ tab. If you cannot see tabs, select the “More details” option.
- 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.
Option 2 – Via Command
You can also see system uptime by using the command prompt.
- Select “Start“.
- Type “cmd“, then press “Enter“.
- Type “net stats server“, then press “Enter“.
- 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.
The “net stats server” command can also be used in many previous versions of Microsoft Windows.
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.
HERMANN S. says
Under my version of Windows 10 (Microsoft Windows 10 Pro,Build 15063), “net stats” is not available.
“net statistics” does the trick instead.
William Bauman says
Just a quick note to add that you must make sure that CPU (Top left) is selected or the uptime will not show. I had previously been looking in task manager and had left the screen while looking at memory and when going back in looking for uptime, I couldn’t find it because of this.
~Willeebee~
Kenne says
FLO, it doesn’t hibernate. That’s a setting you’ve set in your energy options. Shutdown = shutdown. Do not misinform the userbase, nor yourself!
Dave S. says
You can also open a command prompt window and type systeminfo. Scroll back up to the top and look for “System Boot Time:”.
Flo says
The “net stats srv” command, as well as the Uptime display is sadly not as viable under Windows 10 as it was under Windows 7.
If you restart under Windows 10, it does an actual restart. But if you shut down, it doesn’t shut down, it goes into hibernate.
This means that while under Windows 7, the “net stats srv” would tell when you last switched the PC on or performed a restart, under Windows 10 it will tell you a mostly useless time when the system was last actually shut down, due to a restart or due to an update, which can be some days ago, but not e.g. when you came today to work and switched the PC on.
Alec says
Helpful! Thanks