CODEWITHSUNDEEP
windowsbatch-fileregistry
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Reputation: 689

How to identify the current logged in user of a windows 10 machine

I have developed a software, that requires current logged in user name, but during the installation, I provide the admin user( admin right user). my application fetches the admin user. is there any way to get the current user name/ details from the registry.

I tried to fetch the HKEY_CURRENT_USER, however, it returns the admin user profile.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6114

Answers (2)

NapkinBob
NapkinBob

Reputation: 724

I'm not exactly sure why you'd want to get this from the registry via batch file, but if you just want to get it in a batch file, just look at the %username% environment variable. Alternatively if you want to get domain\machine information, check the output of whoami. Lastly if you want a bit more information and want to parse it, you can use Query user but that would be decidedly more messy.

C:\Users\myname>echo %username%

myname

Or

C:\Users\myname>whoami

domain\myname

Upvotes: 4

Hackoo
Hackoo

Reputation: 18857

I don't know if this what you want as to query the value of LastUsedUsername ?

@echo off
set "Winlogonkey=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon"
@for /f "tokens=3 skip=2 delims= " %%a in (
'Reg Query "%Winlogonkey%" /v LastUsedUsername'
) do (
    Set "LastUsedUsername=%%a"
)
echo "%LastUsedUsername%"
pause

Upvotes: 0

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