How to identify, Is current user a Administrator..?

Question

Hi,

Is there any registry key using which I can identify that weather the current user is Administrator or not...
I need to do this so that i can exit my Setup if the current user is not an Admin.

Or recoment me if there is some other way to achieve the same.



Thanks,

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vishwas Srivastava

Answer 1

You can get this information from the WindowsPrincipal class.

Check out this article for a detailed code sample.

The trick here is in the line:

myPrincipal.IsInRole(  WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator ) ? "True"
 : "False"
,



You can check the current principal to check to see if the current user is an administrator.

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