Question

I know Environment.TickCount exist but I have a big problem with that, it’s limited to 25 days.

what would be a good alternative that require no external module/dll and would work in a vanilla install of windows server 2003?

thanks

Answer 1

Plenty of choices.

public TimeSpan SystemUpTime() {     PerformanceCounter upTime =          new PerformanceCounter('System', 'System Up Time');      // You've got to call this twice. First time it returns 0      // and the second time it returns the real info.     upTime.NextValue();        return TimeSpan.FromSeconds(upTime.NextValue()); } 

This, however, won’t run if you don’t have sufficient privileges.

You can also use WMI