Spent too long in tech support - The trick with people like this is to move the goal to something that they certainly haven’t done before yet still accomplishes the same goal. Here I would honest to God ask the customer to check the pins on the power cable to make sure they’re straight. I don’t give a damn about those pins but they have to unplug the computer to look.
Does get-ciminstance not do the trick? I know the PS wmic cmdlets are depreciated, but I doubt they’d remove it entirely given how much uses that in the background.
On the other hand, our endpoint management solution reported long, continuous uptime even if devices were shut down. Turns out fastboot was to thank for it.
Once I had a user swear up and down they restarted the computer 3 times, and asked if I thought they were an idiot.
I said, “No, I’m not saying you’re an idiot, but your computer is saying it’s boot time was 18 months ago.”
Spent too long in tech support - The trick with people like this is to move the goal to something that they certainly haven’t done before yet still accomplishes the same goal. Here I would honest to God ask the customer to check the pins on the power cable to make sure they’re straight. I don’t give a damn about those pins but they have to unplug the computer to look.
I just say, “Let’s go ahead and try it again so I can check that box off.”
I used to tell them I was checking something and open up cmd and get system uptime right after asking that.
The number of people shocked at being called out for having their PC on for over 60 days straight is enough to make anyone lose faith in humanity.
I used to see a lot of people log out and back in and think that was restarting. Still wish Windows had an uptime command
I’m mad WMIC is gone. That thing was fucking useful, so of course Microsoft went out of their way to get rid of it.
Whaaaat they removed wmic?! I used the crap out of that when I did windows admin.
Yeah. It’s been deprecated for a while, but I’ve been running into some 11 systems where it is totally gone.
Have fun remembering a whole buttload of random PowerShell cmdlets to do the same fucking thing as that one tool.
Does get-ciminstance not do the trick? I know the PS wmic cmdlets are depreciated, but I doubt they’d remove it entirely given how much uses that in the background.
Does it not still show in Task Makager?
It shows there, from the CPU under Performance. I just like command line options
Good! I thought maybe the enshittification that is Windows 11 changed that.
Systeminfo | find “Boot Time”
Systeminfo|findstr Boot
Works as well, but the B in boot has to be capitalized
On the other hand, our endpoint management solution reported long, continuous uptime even if devices were shut down. Turns out fastboot was to thank for it.
Yeah, my job didn’t pay for any of that fancy stuff. This was a wmic command.