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With Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced a whole new window manager which provides a better experience to the user and an independent graphics surface to us developers by taking advantage of graphics acceleration hardware (your graphics card or integrated GPU).
In a three-part blog post, I will show you how to use a wrapper around the Desktop [...]
Written by Stanimir Stoyanov on July 21st, 2008 with comments disabled.
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I have been playing around with the SystemInfo command in windows, and I wanted a concise way to see what the uptime of my system was.
It is actually very simple. Get a command line, and type:
It will go through some calculations, and finally come back:
This is a very simple way to see if that server, or workstation was really rebooted.
Note: It seems that I have been caught using Windows XP again. Can’t help it…so much faster than my Vista box. The above command will not work for 2008, or Vista. This is because Microsoft has changed the output of SystemInfo. To get very similar info for those two operating systems you can use: “systeminfo | find “System Boot Time”
Update #2: On Windows 2003 it is different too: “systeminfo | find “System Up Time”
Written by Steve Wiseman on July 21st, 2008 with comments disabled.
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