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tomos

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Re: Windows Install Date Thingie: I made it!
« Reply #75 on: March 15, 2011, 06:28 PM »

How does the program calculate time since reboot?  The elapsed time shown may be correct for my laptop if we're talking about user-initiated reboot; but Windows OS automatically rebooted my machine sometime in the past two days, after updates were downloaded and installed...

I think the install date is off there too :tellme:
IIRC others had problems getting correct calculations for time since last reboot
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Re: Windows Install Date Thingie: I made it!
« Reply #76 on: March 15, 2011, 08:50 PM »
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Re: Windows Install Date Thingie: I made it!
« Reply #77 on: March 17, 2011, 04:01 AM »
Just ran fine for me on Windows 7 a few minutes ago - except for the pop-up a few minutes later saying Windows thinks the program was installed incorrectly.  ;D  Weird since it doesn’t actually install to Windows!

Can't say if the "Born on" date was correct exactly, but it was close IIRC. The last reboot matched my "Tray Up Time" last reboot measurement except it is exactly one hour more, which I attribute to Daylight Savings Time being in effect. (Can anyone tell me WHY we even still use that now?)

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Re: Windows Install Date Thingie: I made it!
« Reply #78 on: March 17, 2011, 10:50 PM »
I got the same pop-up from Windows about a possible installation problem.  That's obviously a Windows bug.  I've had Windows do that before with other non-installing executables I've run.
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