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Living Room / Re: Windows Install Date Thingie: I made it!

« on: March 15, 2011, 09:57 AM »

Sorry to dredge this up from the deep but I sure would not mind seeing a Windows Install Date Thingy "gadget" for Windows 7! 

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Living Room / Re: Windows Install Date Thingie: I made it!

« on: April 18, 2008, 06:40 AM »

Thanks lanox and tomos.

* btw, do you happen to hang out/help at the castlecops forums?
just tried to go there for a look now but thing's moving incredibly slowly there at the mo

Yes, that's me - well, Bill_Bright is me. And yes CastleCops is running slow (still/again - in fact, they appear to be down again this morning - ).

As for the alive times being off - what can I say? If Uptime knows when I last rebooted, then it seems the alive times should be right. I just wonder how many folks have encountered a Windows PC that has been running for more than 3 months without a reboot.

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Living Room / Re: Windows Install Date Thingie: I made it!

« on: April 16, 2008, 10:57 AM »

Hi folks, new to here, but not IT. And a HW guy - don't do code - so I don't have much to contribute, but questions and observations.

I joined to comment on this program - I like it, first off and it works great on my XPPSP2 system. Thanks for providing it, Ralf.

But I have my dad's old XPHomeSP2, XP2500+ I built in November 2002 sitting in the dungeon of my basement crunching BOINC units, and it refuses to die - or even stumble. Note the discrepancies between Microsoft's Uptime (which is correct, BTW -  ) and Windows Install Date "thingie" below:

The Install date for that system is correct. However, last I checked, November 2002 plus 6 years 5 months equals May 2009 - I don't think we are there yet.

Also, it will be interesting to see what happens in ~33.6 hours (note the -2014 minutes) - I wonder how it knows I will reboot then?

I look forward to V1.2.

Edit note - updated link to image - Digerati