IsUserAnAdmin

IsUserAnAdmin() function

Determines whether the currently logged on user is a member of the Administrator's group.
  • There are times when a program needs to perform an operation that requires the current user to have administrative privileges. This function uses a Shell32 API call to query as to whether the user is an administrator, returning 1 for true and 0 for false. This function requires Windows 2000 or higher. See this page for an example on how to determine the operating system version.
isAdmin = IsUserAnAdmin()
if not(isAdmin) then n$ = "not "
print "Current user is "; n$; "an administrator"
end
 
function IsUserAnAdmin()
    calldll #shell32, "IsUserAnAdmin",_
        IsUserAnAdmin as boolean
end function
Edited to add that the minimum OS for this API function is Windows 2000. It won't work on versions before that. - Alyce Alyce