How to tell when you installed.

Where do you go to find out the date of your windows 2k install? I install windows on dozens of computers a week and need to find out when I did an install on a particular box, the exact date. Thanks in advance.

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Where do you go to find out the date of your windows 2k install? I install windows on dozens of computers a week and need to find out when I did an install on a particular box, the exact date.
 
 
 
Thanks in advance

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I would have thought that the time stamp on setuplog.txt, in the WinNT directory, should tell you that.

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Yeah, BUT I clean out any and all files not needed, .log, .bak, .tmp etc. That one is long gone...

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How about this; Right click on C:\WINNT in explorer, choose properties, and look for the create date... It's accurate for me, anyway, last installed April 26th...
 


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If you installed Norton antivirus on the same day you could look at when your subsription runs up.

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The date setting in the registry for the installation date of the OS for NT is located in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\InstallDate". The values displayed are the following example: 0x39c24d62(969035106).
 
InstallDate REG_DWORD Time (in seconds) since 12:00 A.M. on January 1, 1970
Stores the date and time that the current build of Windows NT was installed. For example, Monday, January 01, 1996, 12:00:00 AM would be 0x30E76A50 (820,472,400 seconds).