How to Find Windows 10 Original Install Date and Time
This tutorial will show you different ways on how to find the original date and time for when your current Windows 10 was installed on your PC.
Contents
- Option One: Find Windows 10 Original Install Date and Time using systeminfo Command
- Option Two: Find Windows 10 Original Install Date and Time using WMIC Command
- Option Three: Find Windows 10 Original Install Date and Time in PowerShell
- Option Four: See History of Previous Windows 10 Version Install Dates and Times in PowerShell
1 Open a command prompt.
2 Copy and paste the command below into the command prompt, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)
systeminfo | find "Original Install Date"
1 Open a command prompt.
2Copy and paste the command below into the command prompt, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)
wmic os get installdate
The results will be returned with a string of digits. The first section of theses digits represent the Windows 10 original install data and time in the format below, with a 24 hour time format.
YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
For example: 20160707132247.000000-300
Translates to:
2016/07/07 13:22:47
OR
July 7th 2016 1:22:47 PM
1 Open PowerShell.
2 Copy and paste the command below into PowerShell, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)
([WMI]'').ConvertToDateTime((Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem).InstallDate)
1 Open PowerShell.
2 Copy and paste the command below into PowerShell, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)
Code:Get-ChildItem -Path HKLM:\System\Setup\Source* | ForEach-Object {Get-ItemProperty -Path Registry::$_} | Select-Object ProductName, ReleaseID, CurrentBuild, @{n="Install Date"; e={([DateTime]'1/1/1970').AddSeconds($_.InstallDate)}} | Sort-Object "Install Date"
That's it,
Shawn
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