Determine if user is a windows system administrator

Yes, I understand the goal of Swing is WORA, but I have a very specific challenge...and if I can't meet it, this application will be written in .Net rather than Java.
The challenge: The application needs to know whether the current system user is a Windows system admin (i.e, assigned to the Administrators group) and, if not, hide certain functions. I have considered writing a file to a location and checking for an error, but that's not always reliable...depending on system policies. I am wide open for good ideas. :)
Thanks.
-JD

>
..The application needs to know whether the current system user is a Windows system admin (i.e, assigned to the Administrators group) and, if not, hide certain functions. >When constructing the GUI..
try {
// certain functions
} catch(Throwable t) {
// hide certain functions
...Or to put that another way, "The application needs to know whether the current run-time environment offers the functionality that relates to the app.". That is a different thing to knowing whether "the current system user is a Windows system admin".

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