Get logged on user's name or email on Windows 8 using C++ and WinAPIs

Question

On Windows 7 to retrieve the name of a logged on user I can do this:

LPTSTR pUserName = NULL;
DWORD dwcbSzUserName = 0;

//\'dwSessID\' = user session ID
if(WTSQ         


        

Answer 1

You could try NetUserGetInfo with USER_INFO_23 to get full name.

Something basically like:

    //Got user name in 'pUserName'
    NetUserGetInfo(NULL, pUserName, 23, my_USER_INFO_23);
    //Got display name in my_USER_INFO_23.usri23_full_name