How to Get Uptime of Remote Computer Using PowerShell

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✔ How do I find the uptime on my remote computer using PowerShell?
✔ Get uptime of remote computer using PowerShell
✔ Other three options to get the remote computer uptime
✓ Option 1. Use SystemInfo command line
✓ Option 2. Use Sysinternals command line
✓ Option 3. Use the remote desktop software
✔ Conclusion

How do I find the uptime on my remote computer using PowerShell?

“I have a remote Windows 10 computer and I always need to remote into it. Therefore, I keep it running and I have already forgotten how long has it been on. Now I want to know how can find the uptime on it? Can I do it using PowerShell?”

Get uptime of remote computer using PowerShell

The answer is YES! You can get uptime of a remote computer using PowerShell. Here in this part, we’ll give you the detailed steps on how to do this.  

Step 1. On your remote computer, right-click This PC on your desktop, and then choose Properties.

Step 2. You can see your computer name here. Note it down, you’ll need it later.

Step 3. Press Win + R to invoke the Run dialog box, then type in “powershell.exe” and press OK to open PowerShell.

Step 4. Type in the following command, and then press Enter:

(Get-Date) - (Get-CimInstance Win32_OperatingSystem -ComputerName Remote_Computer).LastBootupTime

Note: Replace “Remote_Computer” with the name of your own remote computer.

Other three options to get the remote computer uptime

Except for using the PowerShell command to get uptime of remote computer, here we would like to introduce other three options to get the remote computer uptime.

Option 1. Use SystemInfo command line

Important: The prerequisite to using SystemInfo to display information about remote computers is that the local computer and the remote computer are on the same network.

Step 1. Press Win + R to invoke the Run dialog box, then type in “cmd” and press OK to open Command Prompt.

Step 2. Type in the following command, and then press Enter:

SystemInfo /s Remote_Computer | find "Boot Time:"

Note: Replace “Remote_Computer” with the name of your own remote computer.

Option 2. Use Sysinternals command line

Important: The prerequisite to using Sysinternals is that you will need the Remote Registry service up and running on the remote computer.

Step 1. On the remote computer, press Win + R, then type in “service.msc” and press OK to open Services.

Step 2. Find and double-click Remote Registry.

Step 3. Change the Startup type of Remote Registry to Automatic.

Step 5. Open Command Prompt on the local computer. Type in the following command, and then press Enter:

PSInfo Uptime \\Remote_Computer

Note: Replace “Remote_Computer” with the name of your own remote computer.

Option 3. Use the remote desktop software

Another option for you is to use the free and stable remote desktop software AnyViewer to remotely access the remote computer and then you can check its uptime on it or take other operations on it. Now, download it and see how it works. To control PCs from mobile phones or tablets, you need to download AnyViewer mobile app.

Step 1. Install, and launch AnyViewer on both devices.  Go to Log in, and then click Sign up to create an AnyViewer account. 

Step 2. Log in to the same AnyViewer account on the two devices; your device will automatically be assigned to the account you've logged in to and listed on My devices list.

Step 3. On your local device, go to Device, locate the remote PC on My devices list, click it, and click One-click control to achieve unattended remote access.

✍ Note: If you want to assign more devices to achieve one-click unattended remote access, then you can upgrade your account to a Professional or Enterprise plan. Also, you can connect to another computer in privacy mode, which means you can black the screen and block the mouse and keyboard of the remote computer.

Step 6. Now you have full control of the remote computer. Open Command Prompt on the remote computer.

Conclusion

If you’re trying to get uptime of remote computer using PowerShell, then you can follow the steps listed in this post. Besides using PowerShell command to get uptime of remote computer, we also offer you other three methods. Among these, we highly recommend the last one, which is using the remote desktop software AnyViewer. Once you have remote into another computer, you can check its uptime like you’re just sitting in front of it, no more setup work to do, which is quite convenient compared to others.