Can someone please tel me how I can get the username from the one that is logged into my windows 2000 system? I want to do this with Visual Basic 6.0. Is there some kind of API call to do this?

i think this is the code your looking for Private Declare Function GetUserName Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "GetUserNameA" (ByVal lpbuffer As String, nSize As Long) As Long Public OK As Boolean Private Sub Form_Load() Dim sBuffer As String Dim lSize As Long sBuffer = Space$(255) lSize = Len(sBuffer) Call GetUserName(sBuffer, lSize) If lSize > 0 Then txtUserName.Text = Left$(sBuffer, lSize) Else txtUserName.Text = vbNullString End If End Sub copied straight from the application wizard in vb 6 on w2k machine. run the application wizard and use logon screen ect and the code is put in for you, then you know how it works

Thanx you very much Mark, works great.