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PowerShell - Retrieve System Startup Time Information

Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:02:18 +0000

The below script gathers the following system startup time information from a local or remote client.

Computername
Last Wakeup time (from Sleep, Hibernate or Fast boot on Windows 8x clients) The last wakeup date/time is converted from UTC into the client local time.
Last Boot time
The Time Zone of the client
The system wakeup / sleep message from the Windows event log

Important: the script uses PowerShell remoting, it’s therefore required that the targeted clients have WinRM enabled.

Retrieve Windows Boot Time Script

Thu, 19 May 2011 00:42:14 +0000

Here’s a small batch script to get the Windows 7 Boot time shown in milliseconds.

@echo off
FOR /F “Tokens=4” %%a IN (’%windir%\system32\wevtutil.exe qe Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational /rd:true /f:Text /c:1 /q:"*[System[(EventID = 100)]]" /e:Events ^| FIND “Duration”’) DO SET BTIME=%%a
ECHO Boot Time is : %BTIME%

Inspiration for this script came from the article Monitor System Startup Performance in Windows 7 written by Sean Wheeler for WindowsITPro.