Windows Build Date and or time In Registry

[Guest]

Does anyone know if there is a setting in the registry or anywhere else on a windows 2000 server or professional client that it would tell you the build date and(or) time that windows was installed on. I've looked around a little bit but have been unsucessful at finding anything. Thanks for your time.

 

[Rick]

Does anyone know if there is a setting in the registry or anywhere else on a windows 2000 server or professional client that it

would tell you the build date and(or) time that windows was installed on. I've looked around a little bit but have been unsucessful
at finding anything. Thanks for your time.

While by no means foolproof, the date/time stamp on
Windows' system folders (winnt, winnt\system32 etc)
is an accurate indicator.

Rick

 

[Rick]

Does anyone know if there is a setting in the registry or anywhere else on a windows 2000 server or professional client that it

would tell you the build date and(or) time that windows was installed on. I've looked around a little bit but have been unsucessful
at finding anything. Thanks for your time.

While by no means foolproof, the date/time stamp on
Windows' system folders (winnt, winnt\system32 etc)
is an accurate indicator.

Rick

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

That's exactly what I look at.

Regards

Oli


on a windows 2000 server or professional client that it

would tell you the build date and(or) time that windows was installed on.

I've looked around a little bit but have been unsucessful

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

That's exactly what I look at.

Regards

Oli


on a windows 2000 server or professional client that it

would tell you the build date and(or) time that windows was installed on.

I've looked around a little bit but have been unsucessful

 

[Guest]

Would i be looking at the earliest modified date of any of these folders or files in the winnt folder? I guess to be the most accurate i would be looking for a folder or file that windows does not modify ever after an install, such as a file windows uses at install but never again. I know this is not fool proof and appreciate your help.

 

[Guest]

Would i be looking at the earliest modified date of any of these folders or files in the winnt folder? I guess to be the most accurate i would be looking for a folder or file that windows does not modify ever after an install, such as a file windows uses at install but never again. I know this is not fool proof and appreciate your help.

 

[Rick]

Would i be looking at the earliest modified date of any of these folders or files in the winnt folder? I guess to be the most

accurate i would be looking for a folder or file that windows does not modify ever after an install, such as a file windows uses at
install but never again. I know this is not fool proof and appreciate your help.

There should be a common date/time stamp for Windows'
core system folders, within a few minutes of each other at
most. The folders include \winnt, \winnt\system,
\winnt\system32, \winnt\fonts, \winnt\inf etc etc.

Rick

 

[Rick]

Would i be looking at the earliest modified date of any of these folders or files in the winnt folder? I guess to be the most

accurate i would be looking for a folder or file that windows does not modify ever after an install, such as a file windows uses at
install but never again. I know this is not fool proof and appreciate your help.

There should be a common date/time stamp for Windows'
core system folders, within a few minutes of each other at
most. The folders include \winnt, \winnt\system,
\winnt\system32, \winnt\fonts, \winnt\inf etc etc.

Rick

 

[Michael Bednarek]

Does anyone know if there is a setting in the registry or anywhere else on a windows 2000 server or professional client that it would tell you the build date and(or) time that windows was installed on. I've looked around a little bit but have been unsucessful at finding anything. Thanks for your time.

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Did you try the obvious place in the registry:
Key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
Value: InstallDate (REG_DWORD) ?

SRVINFO.EXE (NT Resource Kit), PSINFO.EXE, and probably others, will
show it.

 

[Michael Bednarek]

Does anyone know if there is a setting in the registry or anywhere else on a windows 2000 server or professional client that it would tell you the build date and(or) time that windows was installed on. I've looked around a little bit but have been unsucessful at finding anything. Thanks for your time.

[Please hit the Enter key every 72 character or so.]

Did you try the obvious place in the registry:
Key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
Value: InstallDate (REG_DWORD) ?

SRVINFO.EXE (NT Resource Kit), PSINFO.EXE, and probably others, will
show it.

 

[Gary Smith]

Would i be looking at the earliest modified date of any of these folders

or files in the winnt folder? I guess to be the most accurate i would be
looking for a folder or file that windows does not modify ever after an
install, such as a file windows uses at install but never again. I know
this is not fool proof and appreciate your help.

Dates on folders in WINNT are subject to modification as a consequence of
sysem updates and other activity. I believe the most reliable indication
of the system installation date would be some of the files in
\Winnt\Repair, particularly setup.log, default, sam, security, and system.

 

[Gary Smith]

Would i be looking at the earliest modified date of any of these folders

or files in the winnt folder? I guess to be the most accurate i would be
looking for a folder or file that windows does not modify ever after an
install, such as a file windows uses at install but never again. I know
this is not fool proof and appreciate your help.

Dates on folders in WINNT are subject to modification as a consequence of
sysem updates and other activity. I believe the most reliable indication
of the system installation date would be some of the files in
\Winnt\Repair, particularly setup.log, default, sam, security, and system.

 

[Mark V]

Does anyone know if there is a setting in the registry or anywhere
else on a windows 2000 server or professional client that it would
tell you the build date and(or) time that windows was installed
on. I've looked around a little bit but have been unsucessful at
finding anything. Thanks for your time.

[Please hit the Enter key every 72 character or so.]

Did you try the obvious place in the registry:
Key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
Value: InstallDate (REG_DWORD) ?

SRVINFO.EXE (NT Resource Kit), PSINFO.EXE, and probably others,
will show it.

And the OP must separate an actual installation of the OS from the
case where an image of the system is placed onto disk. The partition
image will retain the original installation dates.

One simple source of dates is in %systemroot%\Repair\ where the at-
time-of-installation dates and times are seen on most of the files.

 

[Mark V]

Does anyone know if there is a setting in the registry or anywhere
else on a windows 2000 server or professional client that it would
tell you the build date and(or) time that windows was installed
on. I've looked around a little bit but have been unsucessful at
finding anything. Thanks for your time.

[Please hit the Enter key every 72 character or so.]

Did you try the obvious place in the registry:
Key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
Value: InstallDate (REG_DWORD) ?

SRVINFO.EXE (NT Resource Kit), PSINFO.EXE, and probably others,
will show it.

And the OP must separate an actual installation of the OS from the
case where an image of the system is placed onto disk. The partition
image will retain the original installation dates.

One simple source of dates is in %systemroot%\Repair\ where the at-
time-of-installation dates and times are seen on most of the files.

 

[Bob I]

Michael, you may wish to turn on "word wrap" in your reader.

 

[Bob I]

Michael, you may wish to turn on "word wrap" in your reader.