IsUserAnAdmin

IsUserAnAdmin() function

Determines whether the currently logged on user is a member of the Administrator's group.

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• 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.

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 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 

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Edited to add that the minimum OS for this API function is Windows 2000. It won't work on versions before that. - Alyce