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May 12, 2015
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How does Task Manager compute Up Time, and why doesn't it agree with GetTickCount?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Task Manager shows a piece of information called "Up time". How is this value calculated, and why doesn't it agree with the value reported by /? Task Manager calculates "up time" by subtracting the system boot time from the current time. In other words, it is misnamed; it really should be called time since system was started. It doesn't subtract ...

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