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\nIf you want to know how long it’s been since Windows was installed (or reinstalled) on your computer, here’s a tip for you.<\/span><\/p>\n
Type COMMAND in the taskbar search and press Enter when Command Prompt appears.<\/span><\/p>\n In the Command window, at the prompt type… Then, press Enter.<\/span> If you reinstalled Windows or if you’ve done a Windows 10 reset, you’ll see the date you reinstalled Windows 10 and not the date Windows was first installed on your computer.\u00a0 But it’s still a great way to see how “old” your current Windows installation is.<\/span><\/p>\n Oh… one more thing… Please do feel free to copy & paste the command. The command must be entered at the command prompt exactly as shown or, boo hoo, it won’t work.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Find Out When Windows Was Installed on Your Computer If you want to know how long it’s been since Windows was installed (or reinstalled) on your computer, here’s a tip for you. Type COMMAND in the taskbar search and press Enter when Command Prompt appears. In the Command window, at the prompt type… systeminfo | find\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3948],"tags":[4131,1684],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20513,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20510\/revisions\/20513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nsysteminfo | find \/i “install date”<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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\n<\/em> As you can see in the screenshot, Windows 10 was installed on my Dell laptop on March 11, 2020.\u00a0 Actually, that is not the original install date; I did a Windows 10 reset and reinstalled Windows on that date.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n