How to Find the Process Start Time on Windows 10/11?

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What Is Process Start Time on Windows 11/10?

When you boot up your computer, some processes and services also start along with the system. This is the time a process was first launched. Some other processes and services start when you launch a program. But most users won’t note the process start time. How can you check the process start time later?

Here are two methods for you:

• You can run special commands in Windows PowerShell to find the process start time on Windows.
• You can use a dedicated process start time checker like Process Explorer to check the process start time.

The following part will introduce these two methods with detailed steps.

How to Find the Process Start Time on Windows 11/10?

Way 1: Use Windows PowerShell

Step 1: Click the search box in the taskbar and search for powershell. Windows PowerShell should be the best match. Then you need to click Run as Administrator.

Step 2: Click Yes to continue if you see the User Account Control interface.

Step 3: Run Get-Process | select name, starttime in Windows PowerShell. You can directly copy this command into PowerShell and press Enter to run it. Then, you can see a list of process starttime.

How to find a specific process’s start time:

Here is a trick for checking a specific process startime. You can run this command in Windows PowerShell: Get-Process ProcessName | select Name, StartTime. For example, if you want to find the start time of Power Data Recovery, you can run this command: Get-Process PowerDataRecovery | select Name, StartTime.

Way 2: Use Process Explorer

Process Explorer is a freeware task manager and system monitor for Windows. It can be used to monitor the process start time. It is not preinstalled on your PC. You need to manually download it.

Step 1: Go to this page to download Process Explorer: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer.

Step 2: The download item is a compressed folder. You need to unzip it.

Step 3: Click procexp.exe. Then, click the Agree button to continue.

Step 4: Process Explorer will open, then you need to go to View > Select Columns.

Step 5: Switch to Process Performance on the pop-up interface, then select Start Time.

Step 6: Click OK to save the change.

Step 7: Start Time will be added to the last column. However, you can drag it to the first one if you want.

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Bottom Line

This post contains two ways to help you check the process start time on Windows. You can choose one way accordingly. In addition, you can try MiniTool Power Data Recovery to rescue your files when needed. If you have questions about this software, you can contact [email protected].