Guest PSRumbagh Posted April 13, 2008 Posted April 13, 2008 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. -- Posted via http://computerhelpforums.net Forum to USENET Gateway
Guest philo Posted April 13, 2008 Posted April 13, 2008 Re: Elapsed time meter "PSRumbagh" <PSRumbagh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:6B38B62C-0FF3-4ECD-8EC3-E390EE64A9D1@microsoft.com... >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. -- Posted via http://computerhelpforums.net Forum to USENET Gateway
Guest Franc Zabkar Posted April 13, 2008 Posted April 13, 2008 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 -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. -- Posted via http://computerhelpforums.net Forum to USENET Gateway
Guest PSRumbagh Posted April 13, 2008 Posted April 13, 2008 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. > -- Posted via http://computerhelpforums.net Forum to USENET Gateway
Guest philo Posted April 13, 2008 Posted April 13, 2008 Re: Elapsed time meter "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. > > -- Posted via http://computerhelpforums.net Forum to USENET Gateway
Guest MEB Posted April 13, 2008 Posted April 13, 2008 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. -- MEB http://peoplescounsel.orgfree.com -- _________ "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message news:udKSESbnIHA.1164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... | | "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. | > > | | -- Posted via http://computerhelpforums.net Forum to USENET Gateway
Guest Fan924 Posted April 14, 2008 Posted April 14, 2008 Re: Elapsed time meter Maybe this? http://time-recorder.omz-software.qarchive.org/ -- Posted via http://computerhelpforums.net Forum to USENET Gateway
Guest Franc Zabkar Posted April 14, 2008 Posted April 14, 2008 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 -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. -- Posted via http://computerhelpforums.net Forum to USENET Gateway
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