Username

[teenguy 0]

I need to be able to instruct a computer novice how to determine their username, i.e. the name replacing

"Administrator" in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator. What is the simplest way to do this.

[OLEerror 0]

Have them load the Command Prompt and run whoami.

[lsavidge 0]

open a dos window and type:

 

echo %username%

 

This will show you who you are logged in as. It will be the name of the sub directory in Documents and Settings. At last check Win2k Professional doesn't have a whoami command. Cygwin does but that requires you to have Cygwin installed, or at least some other unix shell in Windows.

 

HTH

 

/Lee

[clutch 1]

Or you can get "Whoami.exe" from here, which is a link off of the main "Free Tools" page over here. As for me, I use %username% all the time as mentioned before.

[teenguy 0]

Thanks all for your answers. I've downloaded the whoami.exe