Elapsed time meter

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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.
 
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.
 
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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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.
>
 
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.
> >
 
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.
| > >
|
|
 
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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