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I have found a very old machine at a company storage room. It seems to have been running forever. It is not connected to the Internet and only has a 3.5" floppy drive.

Is it possible to look up the uptime for this machine?

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  • That is just cool! Did you find out how long its been running?
    – kodybrown
    Commented Jan 15, 2017 at 4:56

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Windows 3.1 (and WfW 3.11) do maintain an uptime counter, but it is only available by an API call so you need a program to see it. If you can get it on the machine then this will tell you what you want to know.

EDIT: Apparently that one isn't the correct file, here is a different one I found that seems to be correct, the original reference I found was here.

Supposedly from command prompt you can run net statistics server and see the start time of the computer, but it's buried and with no grep command in Windows it is hard to find.

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  • Well, that program did not work. It just showed the time since the program started :(
    – Chengy
    Commented Apr 15, 2016 at 16:42
  • Dang it... I remember doing this "back in the day" and the program was called uptime, I googled it and found the one linked above and the description looked correct, so I posted the answer... sorry it isn't the right one. I will look a little more.
    – acejavelin
    Commented Apr 15, 2016 at 16:44
  • @Chengy See edits to answer... might work better. Yes, I want to know the uptime of that box too :) and what is has been running for so long.
    – acejavelin
    Commented Apr 15, 2016 at 16:48

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