<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 14, 2008 8:55 PM, Patrick Li <<a href="mailto:patrick@gxlinc.com" target="_blank">patrick@gxlinc.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>Does anyone know if there's a way to programmatically check to see if a user has windows administrator privilege? I need this to work in WinXP and Vista.<br><br>Thanks in advance,<br><font color="#888888">
Patrick<br><br>
</font><br>_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></div><br><br>import ctypes<br>print ctypes.windll.shell32.IsUserAn<span>Admin</span>()<br><div><br>
(Courtesy of Thomas Heller - from a posting back in 2006)<br><br>I have no idea if it will work on Vista. You will need to try it.<br><br>hth,<br><br>Graeme<br><br><br><br><br></div><br>