How to get the name of the current Windows user in JavaScript

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JavaScript runs in the context of the current HTML document, so it won’t be able to determine anything about a current user unless it’s in the current page or you do AJAX calls to a server-side script to get more information.

JavaScript will not be able to determine your Windows user name.

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