XP Uptime Quickie :)

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Just wrote another fun one with AutoIt :)


Uptime Quickie

It calculates and displays how long the system has been
running and its start time. Uptime result can be put to
clipboard. There is also a message-box mode display
available.

It works fine in XPpro, and I think it should be fine on
XPhome.
Perhaps people who use NT could tell me if it works with NT?
Not for 9x user (sorry).

(no install, no registry entries)

Screenshot:
http://home.earthlink.net/~ringomei/UTQ.jpg


direct download:
http://home.earthlink.net/~ringomei/XPUptimeQuickie.zip (97kb)







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On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 03:58:29 GMT, in alt.comp.freeware, the personage of "R.
L." <ringomeinew@_hot_mail_.YOU_KNOW_THE_REST>, courtesy of Message-id
and wondering whence the lambs & piglets said:
Just wrote another fun one with AutoIt :)


Uptime Quickie

It calculates and displays how long the system has been
running and its start time. Uptime result can be put to
clipboard. There is also a message-box mode display
available.

It works fine in XPpro, and I think it should be fine on
XPhome.
Perhaps people who use NT could tell me if it works with NT?
Not for 9x user (sorry).

(no install, no registry entries)

Screenshot:
http://home.earthlink.net/~ringomei/UTQ.jpg


direct download:
http://home.earthlink.net/~ringomei/XPUptimeQuickie.zip (97kb)
Click to expand...

Nicely done :-)
 
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 03:58:29 GMT, in alt.comp.freeware, the
personage of "R. L."
<ringomeinew@_hot_mail_.YOU_KNOW_THE_REST>, courtesy of


Nicely done :-)
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Thank you :)

The description, screenshot and download link now live here:

Uptime Quickie
http://home.earthlink.net/~ringomei/page2.html


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Uptime Quickie
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"R. L." <ringomeinew@_hot_mail_.YOU_KNOW_THE_REST> a écrit dans le message
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Just wrote another fun one with AutoIt :)


Uptime Quickie

It calculates and displays how long the system has been
running and its start time. Uptime result can be put to
clipboard. There is also a message-box mode display
available.

It works fine in XPpro, and I think it should be fine on
XPhome.
Perhaps people who use NT could tell me if it works with NT?
Not for 9x user (sorry).
Click to expand...


Hi ,

You sure about your program ?
Just test on my system ( french one , btw)

start time 2004/06/25 etc etc
current 2004/06/28 etc etc

your result 0 day(s) etc etc
 
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Hi ,

You sure about your program ?
Just test on my system ( french one , btw)

start time 2004/06/25 etc etc
current 2004/06/28 etc etc

your result 0 day(s) etc etc
Click to expand...

oops...fixed now....


(there was an extra line in the script that I forgot to delete
leading to the day number did not get processed :P )

I also did a fix on the log file copy format.

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oops...fixed now....


(there was an extra line in the script that I forgot to delete
leading to the day number did not get processed :P )

I also did a fix on the log file copy format.
Click to expand...

Here is the output returned by the new version :

Uptime measured at 2004/06/29 09 : 47:10 is -150 day(s) 13 hour(s) 41
minute(s)
 
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Here is the output returned by the new version :

Uptime measured at 2004/06/29 09 : 47:10 is -150 day(s) 13
hour(s) 41 minute(s)
Click to expand...



Could you give me the start day? Is it the same as what you
state before 2004/06/25, is that start day got reported
correctly and shown correctly (in that order)? And, what OS do
you use?



Thanks.


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"R. L." <ringomeinew@_hot_mail_.YOU_KNOW_THE_REST> a écrit dans le message
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Could you give me the start day? Is it the same as what you
state before 2004/06/25, is that start day got reported
correctly and shown correctly (in that order)? And, what OS do
you use?
Click to expand...

start time 2004/06/25 20:05:35 correct
Current 2004/06/29 11:47 (note : without the seconds shown )

Uptime measured at 2004/06/29 11 : 47:25 is -150 day(s) 15 hour(s) 42
minute(s)

OS XP Pro

On W2K : No display for the start time , strange result for the
difference .

Are you using something like
the current date - last boot time ?
 
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start time 2004/06/25 20:05:35 correct
Current 2004/06/29 11:47 (note : without the seconds
shown )

Uptime measured at 2004/06/29 11 : 47:25 is -150 day(s) 15
hour(s) 42 minute(s)

OS XP Pro

On W2K : No display for the start time , strange result
for the difference .

Are you using something like
the current date - last boot time ?
Click to expand...

Yes, I am. In fact, no secret, you can find it in this entry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
\Prefetcher", "StartTime"

And, you know what, *really* strange thing going on there. I
run the script for about 10 times and I suddenly, successfully
replicated your problem (I got -150 days as well). I double
checked, triple checked and checked and checked and calculated
every thing by hand and am sure that the date difference
equation itself is right. I am, however, getting very unstable
reading results from time to time (one time the problem suddenly
cleared up but I don't know why). As if the more I run the
script, the calulation result get more crazy and inaccurate.

AutoIt (the scripting language I am using) is not doing the math
correctly and reliably (especially the substraction, I got 181 -
179 = -150, how could that be??).

I *think* it could be a bug, or some hidden thing I am not
aware of about that language (the gui version of AutoIt is still
in beta). Perhaps other Autoit-er can give me some pointers?
For now, I will have to sleep on it for a while :(







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Yes, I am. In fact, no secret, you can find it in this
entry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion \Prefetcher", "StartTime"

And, you know what, *really* strange thing going on there.
I run the script for about 10 times and I suddenly,
successfully replicated your problem (I got -150 days as
well). I double checked, triple checked and checked and
checked and calculated every thing by hand and am sure that
the date difference equation itself is right. I am,
however, getting very unstable reading results from time to
time (one time the problem suddenly cleared up but I don't
know why). As if the more I run the script, the calulation
result get more crazy and inaccurate.
Click to expand...


Ok, I uploaded another version, altered the order of a few
lines to made the system not skiping the math steps. Using
the start date that you gave me, I finally got this:

Uptime measured at 2004/06/29 06:35:46 is 4 day(s) 10 hour(s)
31 minute(s)

Perhaps download it again to see if it works on your XP box?

http://home.earthlink.net/~ringomei/XPUptimeQuickie.zip

As for 2000, I don't have a system that I can dig around in
its registry, so I guess it won't work for 2k then.



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You can try another uptime tool by microsoft. See link
below.

http://sixfiles.com/dbase/files/microsoft-uptime.html

* Posted via http://www.sixfiles.com/forum
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Yes, in fact, I have it. Had been using it but not really
found of dos. I remember reading somewhere that it also will
reset after 40 some days.



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"R. L." <ringomeinew@_hot_mail_.YOU_KNOW_THE_REST> a écrit dans le message
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"R. L." <ringomeinew@_hot_mail_.YOU_KNOW_THE_REST> says in
Ok, I uploaded another version, altered the order of a few
lines to made the system not skiping the math steps. Using
the start date that you gave me, I finally got this:

Uptime measured at 2004/06/29 06:35:46 is 4 day(s) 10 hour(s)
31 minute(s)

Perhaps download it again to see if it works on your XP box?

http://home.earthlink.net/~ringomei/XPUptimeQuickie.zip

As for 2000, I don't have a system that I can dig around in
its registry, so I guess it won't work for 2k then.
Click to expand...


It is ok , now .

For the W2K , thought you did something else than reading the Registry ,
for getting the start time .

Thanks
 
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