Every widget here is a real recording from the app, at the size it runs.
System UptimeA taskbar widget for Windows 10 and 11Free
System Uptime is not a trivia counter. The reason anyone wants this number is to answer a question Windows never asks: has this machine been up long enough that restarting would help? So the strip fills a rail toward the threshold you set, marked one notch per day, and stays quiet and monochrome until you cross it — at which point it turns amber and says restart soon, which is an instruction rather than a label. Click it for the full picture: days up, status, the longest run it has seen, and the threshold. It counts awake time, the way Windows does, so a laptop that sleeps overnight resumes where it left off instead of counting the night.
Where it runs
What it does
- Quiet until it matters — amber and a plain 'restart soon' past your threshold
- A rail marked one notch per day, so the number reads without being read
- Threshold of 3, 7 or 14 days, or never if you'd rather it just counted
- Flyout with days up, status, and the longest run it has recorded
- Remembers your longest uptime across restarts, which the counter itself can't
- Counts awake time, so sleeping overnight doesn't inflate it
- Follows the taskbar's own colour, and re-matches when the theme changes
- One syscall a minute — it costs nothing to leave running
What you can change
- Suggest a restart after
Put it on your desktop
Free download, free to keep. No account.