Re: Retrieving username

"kunal s patel" <kunalspatel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:AA01ED9F-08FB-48F9-B19F-F5FCBA2B80E6@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a question regarding retrieving currently logged on
user.....now i know, windows have one api called GetUserName(). Now
if i use this api from my service, i get SYSTEM as the user
name.....but i want to retrieve the user name of the person who is
currently logged in the system....is there some other apis for
that.....

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/08/22/712677.aspx
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