How to prevent windows from tracking up time?

PolisP said:

... I just want to know how to disable the up time, and no, pausing task manager and closing it doesnt stop the up time from being calculated

There is nothing to turn off as there is no 'hidden process' permanently counting up time. The up time is only calculated on the fly by Task Manager when it is opened, and then only when it updates its view.

The calculation of up time is very simple. Take the current time and subtract startup time. Any process that wants uptime would do the calculation itself. That is what Task Manager does. The startup time can be obtained in various ways. Where the start time is stored is undocumented but I suspect it is in kernel address space which is inaccessible to normal processes. The kernel would need this information and it would want it in a place not subject to meddling by processes.

I don't see any practical way to do what you want. You need to rethink the problem and come up with some other solution.

Ztruker said:

You can't disable or get rid of Up time. It's a calculation done whenever you run Task Manager. As @Bree said, it uses the start time stored in the registry when the system boots and a little simple math to generate the number. My Apache web server has the same info available if I want it.

By any chance, do you know exactly where its stored?

As I said previously, I suspect that startup time is stored in Kernel address space. There are multiple ways to access this but they all ultimately get it from the same place. But wherever it is you can be very sure there is no provision for user level code to change it. Allowing this to be modified by the user or an application would be a really bad idea. System uptime is used by the kernel, the performance monitoring system and other Windows components. Some applications use it as well.

As a matter of interest the startup time is accessible in the registry in a special top level key. Regedit and similar utilities by design will not access it but applications can do so. I don't know the address and I will not take the time to investigate. And it cannot be changed.