"Hunting" Windows XP uptime

Windows XP provides a lot of very good features, but have you found yourself ignoring some features from previous versions of the operating system? For example, if you want to know the uptime of the Windows XP system since the last reboot, for example, the author is using a laptop now, under normal circumstances, it will not restart or shut down, only need to sleep, and sometimes it will count the total running time. . At this point we may think of the Windows 98 system information tool. The Windows 98 System Information tool displays the time value of the system's normal operation. Unfortunately, there is no system information tool for graphical user interfaces in Windows XP, and although some applications, such as Word's "About" dialog, also have system information tools, they do not show the normal operation of the system. time. Still, there are ways to make Windows XP "confess" and the method is still very simple. If we open a command prompt and run the command line version of the Windows XP prompt, you will find a detailed list of configuration information about the Windows XP system, as shown in the following figure, there is a line in the list "system startup time", listed The time is the time since the system was last restarted, from the number of days to the second. Although it is possible to find uptime information in Windows XP using the above method, it is very laborious to find this line of information from a long list, and other information is not something we don't care about. In fact, using a creative command-line program will allow XP to display only "system startup time" by using scrolling technology and the "Find" filtering tool. Here are the specific methods. Click "Start"| "Program"| "Attachment"| "Command Prompt" opens a command prompt window. Enter the following command, note that the quotes for "system startup time" when entering are quotes in English punctuation: systeminfo |  Find "system startup time" as shown below, so only the system startup time is listed.