User Permissions / Task Manager Slowdown Wierdness

[Guest]

I'm troubleshooting some PC's where the GUI seems sluggish when a
non-administrator is logged in. I opened up the Task Manager to see if I
could figure out what process is bogging things down.

I noticed the Task Manager itself was consuming ~20% of CPU utilization when
it's open for a non-administrator. If I drag the task manager window around
continuously, the window position gets stuck about once every second (timing
seems to correspond with the history updates on the performance tab).

When I'm logged in as a user with admin rights, the Task Manager CPU
utilization is normal (<1%), and I can drag the task manager window around
continuosly without it getting stuck.

Has anyone else seen this strange behavior? I'm frustrated because It's
impossible to troubleshoot performance problems using the task manager when
the task manager itself is excessively hogging cycles.

 

[Angus Comber]

You could try creating a new user from scratch and seeing if you see same
behaviour. If so then try adding admin privilege to this user - does
sluggishness remain. If not then maybe something about the Administrator
account itself.

Angus