Elapsed time meter

[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.

 

[philo]

"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.

 

[Franc Zabkar]

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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[PSRumbagh]

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.
>

 

[philo]

"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.
> >

 

[MEB]

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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"philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message
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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.
| > >
|
|

 

[Fan924]

Maybe this?
http://time-recorder.omz-software.qarchive.org/

 

[Franc Zabkar]

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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