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Stoic Joker:
Greetings
   For many years one of my favorite utilities has been the incredibly brilliant and tiny MS Uptime.exe. It will give the current uptime of either LM, or any machine on the network. It will also dump the event logs (local or remote) of all the shutdown/reboot/BSOD & boot events which made creating a (up)timeline a snap for troubleshooting.

  But... It was written back in 1999, and is (for whatever reason) no longer reliable. It tends to crash when trying to get a list of when/why the (local or remote) machine was rebooted.

Here is a sample of it output (run locally):



  Lacking the time to scratch write it myself, I was hoping someone knew of a comparable alternative that was currently available (that works). CLI is preferable, but I'll suffer through a GUI if I have to.

Josh:
http://uptimeexe.codeplex.com/#

Stoic Joker:
http://uptimeexe.codeplex.com/#-Josh (November 15, 2011, 06:03 PM)
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That's only for getting the current uptime for local machine...And it is a .NET app (total deal breaker). The absolute last thing I ever want to even consider doing is installing anything on an unstable machine, especially if it's a server.

I'm looking for something that can query both local and remote machines. And that can do a complete dump of the event log boot records (as shown above).

PhilB66:
NTToolkit - http://netikus.net/products_nttoolkit.html?SESSION=

PSTools - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649

Josh:
Was getting ready to suggest psinfo. It works really well too. I actually forgot I could use it for that until I read about the newest sysinternals releases.

Good find Phil!

WOW! Just checked out NTToolkit, another great find! Now to make it portable!

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