Personal Computer

[jennyjoan]

How can one find how old it is

[ToraToraTora]

the motherboard BIOS should have the build date.

[jennyjoan]

Sorry. Meant when I bought it

[ToraToraTora]

Well you need to find the date you did something on it first. This not guaranteed but if you click on "this pc", then C: then under there you should have a folder called Users, the date that was created may be it. If you have users under that, ie for yourself then the creation date of that will be when you set it up, that should be close. There is no actual way of knowing when you bought it on the computer but you may have the receipt somewhere.

[jennyjoan]

Errr. Where do I type. This pc. Sorry ttt

[ToraToraTora]

You probably have an icon. If not type "this PC" into the search box. Then click open.

[barry1010]

Type This PC in the search box bottom left of the screen

[jennyjoan]

right - don't know if I did the right thing but here goes

This PC
AsusVibeData 1/4/2014

Perf Logs - 2013

Would that be around the time of my installation of this PC and also is it time perhaps a new one.

[ToraToraTora]

just find the date that the users file was created.
"This PC" is the W10 equivalent of "my computer" just get into the file structure and look for a folder called "users" then right click - properties - then you should see the creation date.

[ToraToraTora]

if you want to find the creation date of the PC, then search for "system info" bottom left and click "system information" then look for BIOS version/date

[barry1010]

If your pc is doing everything you want it to there is no need to replace it

[Buenchico]

Go to your 'Documents' folder.

In the left-hand panel, click on 'Local Disk (C:)'.

Where the column headings are ('Name', 'Date modified', etc), right-click and place a tick next to 'Date created'. Then look at 'Date created' alongside the 'Windows' folder. That will tell you when Windows was installed onto your computer, which would usually only be a short time before you bought it.

[jennyjoan]

chris - when I go to documents in Control Panel I guess - it just brings up all my documents that I have - no "local disc".

[Buenchico]

My 'Documents' folder looks like this, with 'Local Disk' towards the bottom on the left-hand side.

An alternative route, if you've got a shortcut to 'This PC' somewhere, is to double-click that shortcut and then either single-click 'Local Disk' in the left-hand column or double-click it in the main pane.

If you've not got a shortcut to 'This PC', start typing 'this pc' in the Windows search box. When 'This PC' appears above it, click there and then single or double-click as in my previous paragraph.

After that, follow the final paragraph from my post at 1729.

[barry1010]

Chris, I don't have 'local disk' in my document folder. I don't have it in 'This PC' either.
In 'This PC' I do have "Windows (C:)" which I think is the same thing.

In my "Windows (C:)" I do have a folder called 'Windows' which tells me it was created in 2019. This doesn't tell me how old my PC is because I bought it in 2013.
The 'Windows.old' folder only goes back as 2016.

If I go in to 'This PC' the 'Recovery Disk' is dated back to 2013