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[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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."

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I just say, "Let's go ahead and try it again so I can check that box off."

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Same! I'd say, "Look, I know you're not stupid but do this thing so I can get past the initial troubleshooting. Humor me."

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] dropcase@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Whaaaat they removed wmic?! I used the crap out of that when I did windows admin.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Still works on my Win11. Now you got me anxious waiting for it to die.

I don't get as mad at Microsoft as most around here, but this is some boolsheet.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

What?! That's going to break a shitload of my PowerShell scripts.

[–] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does it not still show in Task Makager?

[–] dropcase@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It shows there, from the CPU under Performance. I just like command line options

[–] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Good! I thought maybe the enshittification that is Windows 11 changed that.

[–] Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Systeminfo | find "Boot Time"

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Systeminfo|findstr Boot

Works as well, but the B in boot has to be capitalized

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can check Windows uptime in the taskmanager under the Performance tab.

[–] dropcase@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, or network settings (not always accurate) or Powershell. It just would've been nice to Win+R, cmd, uptime - way back I'd use net stats srv (or wksta)

[–] DeviantOvary@reddthat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, my job didn't pay for any of that fancy stuff. This was a wmic command.