get logged on user

[hph]

hello, i need to know who to determine whether a user is logged on or not. i have already tried GetUserName but this didn't work, because i have a service running as 'system', so GetUserName only returns 'system'. Now, how can i get this information ? OS: Windows 2000 Thanks in advance.

[David Crow]

Check out the UserName property of Win32_ComputerSystem.

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[Toby Opferman]

If this is Windows 2000 and you think they will always launch the shell you could simpy enumerate processes looking for explorer.exe or whatever they replaced the shell with. Alternatively you could write a Winlogon Notification DLL which gets notified of events such as Logon and Logoff. 8bc7c0ec02c0e404c0cc0680f7018827ebee

[hph]

thanks for the hints, but i have found another workaround. because i have already a process which gets launched at startup - i simply put a pipe in it, which delivers the needed informationen whether a user has logged on. thanks anyway.