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Old December 2nd 17, 07:01 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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In message , T writes:
On 12/01/2017 08:33 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
T wrote:

A customer wanted to know how old his computer was. He thought
maybe four years. So I look for when Windows was installed.
It was over sever years. Chuckle.

When was Windows installed:

systeminfo | find /i "original"

Only works if you never give up resolving a problem that a fresh OS
install will fix quicker. At some point in troubleshooting a problem,

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I had to chuckle at a customer that always though her computers
were 1/3 as old as they were. So I kept a spreadsheet and sent
it to her. She started keeping it up herself. And no longer
complained about why a 2 year old computer need to be replaced
after only 7 years.

:-)


Can modern motherboards, processors, disc drives, or other such
components be interrogated for a date - to within a couple of years,
anyway? (I don't know, I'm asking.) Video cards will probably show one
for a second or two when the computer starts, though that'd be the date
of its firmware, not the actual hardware, but again that ought to be
within a couple of years I'd have thought.

(If components can only be interrogated for serial number, there might
be databases somewhere online that lost serial numbers by date. I think
disc drives at least can be interrogated for these.)
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