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Task Manager - User 'Unknown' specified for all processes

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by jdarroll

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has anyone seen this error or know what its doing? The Task Manager now does not have my username 'john' as its usually would, it has 'unknown' instead which is clearly wrong. It still logs me into the domain and I can see the netwprk as normal, but there is clearly something wrong. Any ideas?

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by dontknowwhatimdoing

When you scheduled your task was it set up to use your local account or your domain account? It sounds like the task was set up on your local account and that account has been deleted.

by alexeyv

Hi,

I hit exact the same case few days ago with my Win 2k server machine that becomes very slow when this happens. After restart everything goes OK. Have you solved it - I can not find any source except yours for this matter.

Thanks in advance,
Alexey

by stickler

I have the same issue on Win2k SBS. Users will complain of sporatic issues. I logon to the server fine but when looking at processes in task manager all the usernames (except system) that should either be my name or system show up as "unknown". Also the system process is showing 99% cpu usage. Another symptom is any new processes (for example the taskmgr process itself have an extremely high pid)

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