Utility to count restarts

[FergADT]

Does anyone out there know of a good utility to put on a Windows 98 machine that will keep a counter for how many times the machine has been restarted? Preferably it would be a utility that could generate a report (or that I could grab a report from accross the network)...

Any help would be much appreciated...

 

[jrbarnett]

You can roll one yourself with a quick batch file:

@echo off
echo PC Booted at:
echo.|date >> C:\BOOTUP.LOG
echo.|time >> C:\BOOTUP.LOG
:end

and call this from Autoexec.bat, so it gets added each time the machine boots up. You then have a text file with the bootup date and time.

You can then count the occurrences of "PC Booted at:" with any text editor to work out how many times it has been rebooted.

John

 

[FergADT]

That would work -- looking for something I can report off of in a network environment, though..

I appreciate it .. I'll use that but I'll try to find something that provides reporting options too

Thanks...

John

 

[MiggyD]

you'll have to have admin rights as well as a shared directory on the w98 pc to get the data you seek...or at least have a common directory on the server where you both have access to, so that the information could be written.

If that pc has QBASIC loaded (may be c:\command or c:\windows\command), I could help you write some code, if you have no luck finding a pre-written program.

If you choose to use QBasic, you can preformat the report to your specs.

What's your pleasure?

--MiggyD

 

[FergADT]

hrmm.. I don't have QBasic loaded on the PCs (it's for an entire call center that I support) - they do all have access to a shared drive, though, from which I run batch files, etc, on all affected systems -- I could push QBasic to the workstations (no install is necessary, just needs qbasic.exe and qbasic.hlp somewhere on the workstation if I remember correctly). I could have a file created by each PC based on its system name and pushed to a folder on the shared location...

 

[BeenThereDoneThat]

FergADT:

Go to this page and scroll to the bottom. The last program listed is a program caller winlogger, that is freeware. Look at the sample log and see if this is what you want.

http://aigarsoft.valsts.lv/

 

[MiggyD]

BeenThereDoneThat:

That link is to the [red]home page[/red]. You'll have to click on the upper-left navagation frame and click on "download programs"...then scroll down to find it

Or, to avoid all that, simply click below

http://aigarsoft.valsts.lv/downloaden.html

Kudos to you for finding something, anything that may help.


FergADT:

You will still have to "count" the number of times the system was turned on (either manually or creating a program to do that automatically). However, take a look at it. You could probably create a batch file to copy those "list.txt" file it generates to your system.

--MiggyD

 

[MiggyD]

FergADT:

Did that program do the job?

 

[FergADT]

I tested it and it worked great on a single workstation to a shared network drive. The management team scrapped the idea they had that required this, however, so I didn't end up deploying it... but thanks for the helpful tips