There are times when a user wants to know the startup and shutdown history of a computer. Mostly, system administrators need to know about the history for troubleshooting purposes. If multiple people use the computer, it may be a good security measure to check PC startup and shutdown times to make sure the PC is being used legitimately. In this article we will discuss two ways to keep track of your PC shutdown and startup times. Using event logs to extract startup and shutdown times Windows Event Viewer is a wonderful tool which saves all kinds of stuff that is happening in the computer. During… Read more
How to Remotely Shut Down or Restart Your Windows 10 PC
A remote shutdown or restart comes in handy when you have several PCs set up in different rooms and don’t want to keep visiting each machine to shut down or restart it physically. Thankfully, Windows 10 offers a utility through which you can shut down or restart PCs connected to your network. This includes the Shutdown.exe utility that simply shuts down or restarts Windows 10 PCs in your local network once they’re configured accordingly. From here on it’s only a matter of seconds to perform the tasks remotely. Here’s how to remotely shut down or restart your Windows 10 PC. Related: How to Lock PC… Read more
How to Check Shutdown and Reboot Date in Linux
There are plenty of reasons why you’d want to find out when your Linux computer shut down, restarted, or how long it’s been running. Most of the time this information is invaluable in debugging a problem that may have happened when no one was looking. Thankfully, Linux meticulously logs system events automatically on most distributions. Accessing that logged information from the command line is a breeze as well. Last Boot First, if you want to check when your computer last booted up, you can use the who command with the -b flag to get an exact date and time in your terminal. You don’t… Read more