Hi

> i am looking for a way to get the users name from windows,
> so if they log into their machine in the morning using
> "Bart Simpson" then i want to be able to retrieve this name.

Are you after the user's full name? This should work on any w2k system (or earlier with the AD client installed)

oWinNTSystemInfo = createobject("WinNTSystemInfo")
oUser = getobject("WinNT://" + oWinNTSystemInfo.domainname + "/" + oWinNTSystemInfo.UserName + ",User")
? oUser.FullName