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Check Windows installation date

07/01/2008 11:40 | Windows | 10 replies | 33256 views | RSS

Have you ever wanted to know when you installed your Windows? You can use Lavalys Everest to check that date, but Windows includes all the necessary tools to extract that date!

It’s really rather simple, just fire up a command prompt, and type:

systeminfo | find “Original Install Date”

If you want to know the installation date of a remote machine, you can use this instead:

systeminfo /s remotemachine | find “Original Install Date”

(see systeminfo /? for more information about how to authenticate on remote machines)

On 9 January 2009 at 15h34, anonymous wrote

Thank you!
On 27 January 2009 at 09h10, anonymous wrote

Being in IT, this is the coolest thing I’ve seen in awhile – thanks for sharing!
On 11 February 2009 at 12h39, anonymous wrote

Try linux, you will be amzed.
On 11 February 2009 at 12h53, Selder wrote

Linux on a desktop … not in a million years :) Windows on a server … not in a million years :)
On 15 October 2009 at 06h39, anonymous wrote

@selder: agreed.
On 13 July 2010 at 05h26, techinterview wrote

Thanks for the tip. I had an old computer that I had converted to a virtual machine and was wondering as when I had installed it. Your tip was handy!
On 3 August 2010 at 10h21, Snark wrote

Cmd line did not work on my W2k3 Sp2 localized.
it works with the following cmdline :
systeminfo | find /i “Original Install Date”

or on a french localized version
systeminfo | find /i “Date d’installation originale”
On 24 June 2011 at 10h10, Siyaathu wrote

Thank you very much!
On 2 October 2011 at 22h39, anonymous wrote

thanks
On 10 June 2012 at 11h14, anonymous wrote

thank you soooooooooo much !!!!!!