From Vista and Windows 7 times a lot of operations are disabled for users without administrator privilegies.
You may use the next code to test if logged user is in administrator group:
function IsAdmin: Boolean; const DOMAIN_ALIAS_RID_ADMINS = $00000220; SECURITY_NT_AUTHORITY: TSIDIdentifierAuthority = (Value: (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5)); SECURITY_BUILTIN_DOMAIN_RID = $00000020; var hAccessToken: THandle; ptgGroups: PTokenGroups; dwInfoBufferSize: DWORD; psidAdministrators: PSID; x: Integer; bSuccess: BOOL; begin Result := False; bSuccess := OpenThreadToken(GetCurrentThread, TOKEN_QUERY, True, hAccessToken); if not bSuccess then begin if GetLastError = ERROR_NO_TOKEN then bSuccess := OpenProcessToken(GetCurrentProcess, TOKEN_QUERY, hAccessToken); end; if bSuccess then begin GetMem(ptgGroups, 1024); bSuccess := GetTokenInformation(hAccessToken, TokenGroups, ptgGroups, 1024, dwInfoBufferSize); CloseHandle(hAccessToken); if bSuccess then begin AllocateAndInitializeSid(SECURITY_NT_AUTHORITY, 2, SECURITY_BUILTIN_DOMAIN_RID, DOMAIN_ALIAS_RID_ADMINS, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, psidAdministrators); {$R-} for x := 0 to ptgGroups.GroupCount - 1 do if EqualSid(psidAdministrators, ptgGroups.Groups[x].Sid) then begin Result := True; Break; end; {$R+} FreeSid(psidAdministrators); end; FreeMem(ptgGroups); end; end;
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