Elapsed time meter

[Guest PSRumbagh]

I am looking for a utility that will keep track of the total on time of

a PC

running Win98SE. Optionally it would be nice if it would log both by

daily

usage and running total to date. Sort of like a "Hobbs hour meter"

used on

aircraft.

 

 

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[Guest philo]

Re: Elapsed time meter

 

 

"PSRumbagh" <PSRumbagh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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>I am looking for a utility that will keep track of the total on time

of a

>PC

> running Win98SE. Optionally it would be nice if it would log both by

> daily

> usage and running total to date. Sort of like a "Hobbs hour meter"

used

> on

> aircraft.

 

 

I'm not trying to be funny but you can simply connect one of those

Hobbs

hour meters to a 12 volt

termination on your power supply to monitor total hours.

 

I use them at work and they have a number of different voltage ranges.

 

 

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[Guest Franc Zabkar]

Re: Elapsed time meter

 

 

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:01:00 -0700, PSRumbagh

<PSRumbagh@discussions.microsoft.com> put finger to keyboard and

composed:

>I am looking for a utility that will keep track of the total on time

of a PC

>running Win98SE. Optionally it would be nice if it would log both by

daily

>usage and running total to date. Sort of like a "Hobbs hour meter"

used on

>aircraft.

 

Go to Start > Run and type "msinfo32".

 

The Uptime since last boot is displayed under System Information.

 

- Franc Zabkar

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[Guest PSRumbagh]

Re: Elapsed time meter

 

 

I would like to know the total elapsed time since Win98SE was installed

on

this computer, several hundred hours I suspect.

 

"Franc Zabkar" wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:01:00 -0700, PSRumbagh

> <PSRumbagh@discussions.microsoft.com> put finger to keyboard and

> composed:

>

> >I am looking for a utility that will keep track of the total on time

of a PC

> >running Win98SE. Optionally it would be nice if it would log both

by daily

> >usage and running total to date. Sort of like a "Hobbs hour meter"

used on

> >aircraft.

>

> Go to Start > Run and type "msinfo32".

>

> The Uptime since last boot is displayed under System Information.

>

> - Franc Zabkar

> --

> Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

>

 

 

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[Guest philo]

Re: Elapsed time meter

 

 

"PSRumbagh" <PSRumbagh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> I would like to know the total elapsed time since Win98SE was

installed on

> this computer, several hundred hours I suspect.

>

 

Oh that's an easy one then...

just look at one of your original files created at setup such as

system.1st

 

> "Franc Zabkar" wrote:

>

> > On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:01:00 -0700, PSRumbagh

> > <PSRumbagh@discussions.microsoft.com> put finger to keyboard and

> > composed:

> >

> > >I am looking for a utility that will keep track of the total on

time of

a PC

> > >running Win98SE. Optionally it would be nice if it would log both

by

daily

> > >usage and running total to date. Sort of like a "Hobbs hour

meter"

used on

> > >aircraft.

> >

> > Go to Start > Run and type "msinfo32".

> >

> > The Uptime since last boot is displayed under System Information.

> >

> > - Franc Zabkar

> > --

> > Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

> >

 

 

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[Guest MEB]

Re: Elapsed time meter

 

 

You can obtain total run time via SMART if your hard drive supports it,

and

you only run one OS, and the drive was used no where else.

 

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|

| "PSRumbagh" <PSRumbagh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

| news:939DF6F4-1386-42B0-B691-85E9EBF19187@microsoft.com...

| > I would like to know the total elapsed time since Win98SE was

installed

on

| > this computer, several hundred hours I suspect.

| >

|

| Oh that's an easy one then...

| just look at one of your original files created at setup such as

system.1st

|

|

| > "Franc Zabkar" wrote:

| >

| > > On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:01:00 -0700, PSRumbagh

| > > <PSRumbagh@discussions.microsoft.com> put finger to keyboard and

| > > composed:

| > >

| > > >I am looking for a utility that will keep track of the total on

time

of

| a PC

| > > >running Win98SE. Optionally it would be nice if it would log

both by

| daily

| > > >usage and running total to date. Sort of like a "Hobbs hour

meter"

| used on

| > > >aircraft.

| > >

| > > Go to Start > Run and type "msinfo32".

| > >

| > > The Uptime since last boot is displayed under System Information.

| > >

| > > - Franc Zabkar

| > > --

| > > Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

| > >

|

|

 

 

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[Guest Fan924]

Re: Elapsed time meter

 

 

Maybe this?

http://time-recorder.omz-software.qarchive.org/

 

 

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[Guest Franc Zabkar]

Re: Elapsed time meter

 

 

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:50:02 -0700, PSRumbagh

<PSRumbagh@discussions.microsoft.com> put finger to keyboard and

composed:

>I would like to know the total elapsed time since Win98SE was

installed on

>this computer, several hundred hours I suspect.

 

If you mean total powered-on time rather than how long ago your

software was installed, then you could keep a log of bootup and

shutdown times by including the following 3 lines in your autoexec.bat

file (lines not beginning with a space have wrapped):

 

%COMSPEC% /CFOR %%v IN (1 2) DO PROMPT $D $T Bootup $_ | FIND /v

"$_" >> c:\uptime.txt

 

win

 

%COMSPEC% /CFOR %%v IN (1 2) DO PROMPT $D $T Shutdown $_ | FIND /v

"$_" >> c:\uptime.txt

 

 

Also add the following line to the Options section of your msdos.sys

file:

 

BootGUI=0

 

Further to MEB's suggestion, you could do what I do and add a SMART

command to your autoexec.bat file, eg ...

 

smartudm 0 /r my_HDD.rpt

find /i "Power On Hours" my_HDD.rpt | find " EC" >> c:\uptime.txt

 

Smartudm is available at the bottom of this page:

http://www.sysinfolab.com/download.htm

 

- Franc Zabkar

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