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Re: how old is the windows installation..? api existing for it...?

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From: Asger J�rgensen
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 11:06
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Hi "\(Oren\)" <Oren.Avni@REMOVE_MExq11.com>

  In article <40236cb0@newsgroups.borland.com>,  "\(Oren\)" 
<Oren.Avni@REMOVE_MExq11.com> says :

> hi dear builders,
> 
> I wrote a systeminfo tool and would like to display how old the current
> window-installation is..
> windows has a console application in: C:\Windows\System32\ that named
> "systeminfo.exe"
> that shows when the system been installed, I just would like to know WHERE
> is this value stored..?
> 
> I couldn't find it in the registry...
> 
> can someone help me with this...? is there a api existing that shows the
> installation-date..?

the creation time of the system folders will be a good 
work arround, i think, at least it looks right on my win2k

Best regards
Asger
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