Thanks Al,
I did do some searching, and only found threads that allowed you to "sign in" as Admin, but nothing that seemed to just confirm or deny the current state. You are right about the Win 9x OSs, I guess I just got too overbroad in my OS qualification.

Rick

>>In a pre-check routine to install a new aplication, I need to check whether the current user has local Admin level access. Does anyone have any idea what API, registry or WSH call(s) might provide this info? Is this OS dependent? (i.e. different for Win95 vs. XP)
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>Well, for one thing, on Win9x/Me the user always has "admin-like" privileges.
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>On NT and above you need to check. I think if you search the messages here there have been several threads addressing this.