Taskmanager shows client process as system

[J.Kraus]

We have a Windows 20000 WTS-Server with several clients connecting.
One client shows a strange behaviour: every task he runs appears as a
SYSTEM process in the task Manager. All other clients behave normally.
He is not a member of a administrative group and his account is the
same as one of the other users.
Any suggestions how to turn the client tasks back into "real" user
tasks?

 

[Matthew Harris [MVP]]

If you start up a command prompt, and you do an "echo %
username%" (without the quotes) what do you get?

-M

 

[J.Kraus]

Hi Matthew,
thanks for your reply.

%username% shows the real username. It's strange: every task like
winword.exe, acrotray.exe and other tasks started by this user seems
to be SYSTEM-Tasks - not one single exception.

 

[Matthew Harris [MVP]]

This is a pretty cool malfunction. So since the user is
identified as a the system, do they also have elevated
privileges?

-M