Contributor: CHAMI BOOL GetUserName( // address of name buffer LPTSTR lpBuffer, // address of size of name buffer LPDWORD nSize ); You can retrieve the current user name by calling the above Win32 API function. "GetCurrentUserName" function is a wraparound to simplify calling "GetUserName()" in Delphi: function GetCurrentUserName : string; const cnMaxUserNameLen = 254; var sUserName : string; dwUserNameLen : DWord; begin dwUserNameLen := cnMaxUserNameLen-1; SetLength( sUserName, cnMaxUserNameLen ); GetUserName( PChar( sUserName ), dwUserNameLen ); SetLength( sUserName, dwUserNameLen ); Result := sUserName; end;