Quickly find out when Windows was last shutdown/rebooted

Every wondered to find out when your desktop was shutdown or rebooted by your mischievous sibling?

Here's a quick way

To find out last reboot
1) Open command prompt and type in

net statistics workstation | more

The second line will say


Statistics since ....

You can find out since when the machine is up

To Find out last shutdown

The easiest way to determine the last shutdown date/time is to check the event logs. When you shutdown a computer Event ID 6006 is written to the Event log which denotes a clean shutdown.