It shows the installation date in Operating System section. You can also check the check any folder in the system drive like "windows" and "program files". Right click the folder, click on the properties and check under the general tab the date when the folder was created. You can simply check the creation date of Windows Folder right click on it and check properties :.
After trying a variety of methods, I figured that the NTFS volume creation time of the system volume is probably the best proxy. While there are tools to check this see this link I wanted a method without an additional utility. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow.
Learn more. How do I find the install time and date of Windows? Ask Question. Asked 13 years, 3 months ago. Active 3 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. VonC 1. Free Wildebeest Free Wildebeest 6, 8 8 gold badges 36 36 silver badges 41 41 bronze badges.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Pick your poison ; In VB. Improve this answer. VonC VonC 1. I found out why. It is because my Windows is not in english.
If you use "install" as string you will get more information than you need. Also, if the locale is not English then this will probably not work. It needs to match the language. Tim I confirm and see the same too recent date as you do. So stackoverflow. It shows that I installed the system two weeks ago, but in fact it was a year or two. It seems that this is a date of the last large upgrade. Show 18 more comments. In regedit. MikeS 1, 3 3 gold badges 27 27 silver badges 48 48 bronze badges.
Tommy Tommy 1, 8 8 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. That's great, is there a special place you went to get that information or did you just know it? Works great, except if Windows was installed using a disk image. Is there a way to check the creation of the users' profile to solve this issue?
I think it gives the last Windows Updated date, instead of the system installed date. We have enough answers here but I want to put my 5 cents.
Nikolay Kostov Nikolay Kostov Better then the other answers, but how about imaged deployments? This is definitely closer to the correct answer; the other solutions no longer work with Windows 10 upgrades. For my Windows 10 system.
Bin had newer dates. There are a few ways to find out when your Windows system was installed. For example, you can run the following command in Command Prompt window.
The time shown in both commands is the day I upgraded my Windows 10 to the latest feature update, not it was originally installed long time ago. It seems that the InstallDate property in the System gets overwritten every time a major feature update is installed.
Luckily, Windows still keeps track of the update history and it was saved in the following registry location, under the name like Source OS followed by the updated date. According to this, my computer was originally installed on Aug 12, , and it was Windows 7 Pro. It was upgraded to Windows 10 Pro on Jan 18, The last update before the current version was done on July 10, Note that all dates listed here are in UTC format. Menu Menu.
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