>>Hi Steve,
>>Try this:
>>

>>Declare Long GetUserNameEx in Secur32 ;
>>   Long NameFormat, String @lpBuffer, Long @nSize
>>
>>nBufLen = 260
>>cAccountName = repl( chr(0), nBufLen )
>>If (GetUserNameEx( 3, @cAccountName, @nBufLen ) != 0)
>>   ? 'Friendly Account Name: ' + left( cAccountName, nBufLen-1 )
>>else
>>   ** GetLastError() return 1332 if the account name was not changed from the original one
>>endif
>>
>>Clear Dlls GetUserNameEx
>>

>
>That's it. It works!!!
>In the "else" above, you could use SYS(0) method so that the function would return a value not empty.
>

Yup, that's right! However I suggest you do the GetLastError() in case it return ERROR_MORE_DATA (need longer buffer) or an error other than above

>Thank you and to all the others.

You're welcome :)
Regards