jxharding
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determine windows installation date
hi, im in an environment where i have to format and reload pc's regularly.
how can i find out when (what date) windows was installed on a machine?
my guess would be to look at some file dates ,but which?
i have posted on another site, but only received bad answers, with people taking wild guesses without checking
It's more for XP machines, but there are still a lot of 98 machines as well
thanks
how can i find out when (what date) windows was installed on a machine?
my guess would be to look at some file dates ,but which?
i have posted on another site, but only received bad answers, with people taking wild guesses without checking
It's more for XP machines, but there are still a lot of 98 machines as well
thanks
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BTW - The easiest way is just to run psinfo.exe from the command prompt. It will show you the info without needing to use any switches.
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the utility is good thanks, it does the trick.
i just hope there is a remote possibility of using windows , or the registry just to get the date.
i'd like to bypass the psinfo copy procedure because for e.g. some of these pc's dont have any inputs like a stiffy drive or cdrom because the people screw around on the pc's then.
thanks
i just hope there is a remote possibility of using windows , or the registry just to get the date.
i'd like to bypass the psinfo copy procedure because for e.g. some of these pc's dont have any inputs like a stiffy drive or cdrom because the people screw around on the pc's then.
thanks
hmmm - if they're on a network, you can always just run it from your machine.
psinfo \\computername
psinfo \\computername
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yeah , that would be good, but higher entities forbid they come near the network.
there's gotta be a way that the program reads from the registry to get the value
there's gotta be a way that the program reads from the registry to get the value
ohhhh I see... well it looks like there IS a way, but it's kind of messy.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/10225603/Registry-Installdate-format.html
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/10225603/Registry-Installdate-format.html
(I got directed to that info from here https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20533614/OS-Install-Date.html ).
Wow - I always forget to look here in the experts-exchange first. Googling for that info didn't turn up much info at all, so I looked here.
Wow - I always forget to look here in the experts-exchange first. Googling for that info didn't turn up much info at all, so I looked here.
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-->"These pc's dont have any inputs like a stiffy drive or cdrom"
What about a usb flash drive?
What about a usb flash drive?