RE: Checking when the OS was first installed

["Nobody Special" <harmless () owbn org>]

<quote who="Andrew Aris">
> From a cmd prompt rum "systeminfo" and it will display the orignal OS
> install date. Not sure how easy this information is to tamper with if that
> is a worry.
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Very easy since it pulls the value from the registry key you mention below.

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> There is also a registry key in
> HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\
>
> Although this is a DWORD so its not exactly human-friendly!
>
> cheers,
>
> Andrew