A better way to get Windows elapsed Uptime or Boot Time duration

Instead of doing the typical command line systeminfo command

  C:\Users\Dagon>systeminfo | find /i "Boot Time"  System Boot Time:          05-May-17, 6:45:19 PM

which takes to long, and does not give you uptime duration or elapsed time

or popular wmic command

  C:\Users\Dagon>wmic os get lastbootuptime  LastBootUpTime  20170504111519.610798-240

which give you an illegible CIM datetime ^[1] result.

Download ^[2] a little open source ^[3] command line uti lity called uptime.exe ^[4] and copy it into C:\Windows\System32 directory

   C:\Users\Dagon>uptime   18:45:09 uptime 08:00:59 <--elapsed uptime

This gives you Windows uptime / boot time duration or elapsed uptime / boot time on the command line, you can use this in batch scripts as you like.

To quickly inspect this value, you can use Task Manager.

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CTRL + ALT + DEL and choose Task Manager, select the Performance tab.

Or you can CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to get to the Task Manager in Performance Tab directly!

Or Right-click on the Taskbar, and click Task Manager.