SQL Server Agent is running under the default user "sqlagent" which is a member of "local admin" and "user".

>What account SQL Server Agent is running under.
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>>Our SQL-Server 7 creates every 5 seconds an entry in the event log.
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>>Entry translated with google ;-)
>>The safety context of SQLServerAgent does not have the privileges for the automatic restart of the server.
>>Original entry
>>Der Sicherheitskontext von SQLServerAgent verfügt nicht über die Privilegien zum automatischen Neustart des Servers.
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>>We've tried nearly everything - restarting, killing sqlagent, ... nothing happened.
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>>TIA