uptime for Win XP?

[Esmail Bonakdarian]

Hi,

Is there a way to display how long a Win XP system has been up?
Somewhat analogous to the *nix uptime command.

Thanks,
Esmail

[Tom Wesley]

Esmail Bonakdarian wrote:

Hi,

Is there a way to display how long a Win XP system has been up?
Somewhat analogous to the *nix uptime command.

Thanks,
Esmail

I believe that "uptime" works from the console, but don't have a machine
to check it with...

[Greg Krohn]

Tom Wesley wrote:

Esmail Bonakdarian wrote:

Hi,

Is there a way to display how long a Win XP system has been up?
Somewhat analogous to the *nix uptime command.

Thanks,
Esmail

I believe that "uptime" works from the console, but don't have a machine
to check it with...

Doesn't work for me, but if you have win32all installed, you can get it
from Python:

import win32api
print "Uptime:", win32api.GetTic kCount(), "Millisecon ds"

Uptime: 148699875 Milliseconds

hth
greg

[Peter Hansen]

Tom Wesley wrote:

Esmail Bonakdarian wrote:

Is there a way to display how long a Win XP system has been up?
Somewhat analogous to the *nix uptime command.

I believe that "uptime" works from the console, but don't have a machine
to check it with...

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

c:\>uptime
'uptime' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Not here, at any rate. Maybe it's part of the Productivity Kit
thingy?

-Peter

[Jonel Rienton]

IIRC, i think it's part of the powertools or IT Toolkit

Peter Hansen said:

Tom Wesley wrote:

Esmail Bonakdarian wrote:

Is there a way to display how long a Win XP system has been up?
Somewhat analogous to the *nix uptime command.

I believe that "uptime" works from the console, but don't have a machine
to check it with...

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

c:\>uptime
'uptime' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Not here, at any rate. Maybe it's part of the Productivity Kit
thingy?

-Peter
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[Nick Coghlan]

Esmail Bonakdarian wrote:

Hi,

Is there a way to display how long a Win XP system has been up?
Somewhat analogous to the *nix uptime command.

Thanks,
Esmail

It's included in the output of the 'systeminfo' command. That command is fairly
slow, though (since it displays a lot more than just the up time)

There's also info about the 'uptime' utility here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q232243/

I don't know if that works for XP.

Cheers,
Nick.

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[Bengt Richter]

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 14:25:28 +1000, Nick Coghlan <nc******@iinet .net.au> wrote:

Esmail Bonakdarian wrote:

Hi,

Is there a way to display how long a Win XP system has been up?
Somewhat analogous to the *nix uptime command.

Thanks,
Esmail

It's included in the output of the 'systeminfo' command. That command is fairly
slow, though (since it displays a lot more than just the up time)

There's also info about the 'uptime' utility here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q232243/

I don't know if that works for XP.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan | nc******@email. com | Brisbane, Australia
---------------------------------------------------------------
http://boredomandlaziness.skystorm.net

import os
[x for x in os.popen('pstat ') if 'uptime' in x.lower()]

['Pstat version 0.3: memory: 327080 kb uptime: 4 15:44:16.696 \n']

That is, if pstat.exe is on your system and path. It comes with various sdk's
and Visual studio stuff. Check tools subdirectory under the latter.
Pstat prints a snapshot of pmon plus drivers info which means info about every process
and thread running as well as drivers loaded, so the above threw away a lot of lines to get the one:

[23:38] C:\pywk\clp>pst at|wc
442 3350 27404

;-)
There's got to be something leaner though.

Regards,
Bengt Richter

[Fredrik Lundh]

Esmail Bonakdarian wrote:

Is there a way to display how long a Win XP system has been up?
Somewhat analogous to the *nix uptime command.

ugly, somewhat slow, and possibly locale dependent:

import os, re

def uptime():
return re.search(
"System Up Time:\s*(.+)", os.popen("syste minfo").read()
).group(1)

print uptime()

</F>

[Peter Hansen]

Bengt Richter wrote:

>>> import os
>>> [x for x in os.popen('pstat ') if 'uptime' in x.lower()] ['Pstat version 0.3: memory: 327080 kb uptime: 4 15:44:16.696 \n']
[...]
There's got to be something leaner though.

I believe there is, though I can't guarantee this is a
valid approach:

import datetime
import os
def uptime(): .... t = os.stat('c:/pagefile.sys'). st_mtime
.... td = datetime.dateti me.now() - datetime.dateti me.fromtimestam p(t)
.... return td
.... print uptime()

12 days, 20:21:17.491000

(matches results of Bengt's and Fredrik's two approaches
two within a minute or so)

-Peter

[Brad Tilley]

Esmail Bonakdarian wrote:

Hi,

Is there a way to display how long a Win XP system has been up?
Somewhat analogous to the *nix uptime command.

Thanks,
Esmail

Just run the built-in Windows utility 'systeminfo' from a cmd prompt.
Python can call 'systeminfo' like this:

import os

uptime = os.popen('syste minfo', 'r')
data = uptime.readline s()
uptime.close

for line in data:
if line contains "System Up Time":
print line

Please note that 'systeminfo' is only present on Windows XP PRO and
Windows Server 2003... Windows XP HOME does not have this command.