I recently went into my Task Scheduler to check things out. As soon as I entered the Task Scheduler I was greeted with multiple messages saying "The task image is corrupted or been tampered with"! Each one referred to a different task name, and I counted 34 of them as I clicked OK on each one. I don't know if that is all of my tasks, or some subset of them, as I haven't really looked at the Task Scheduler until now. So I researched this message, and found a couple of other Microsoft forum entries about this, but I don't think either are relevant to me. The first one was a message on Windows Vista, and I'm running Windows 7. Also the solution in this one was to delete a couple of tasks, and re-add them. I don't think I should be deleting 34 tasks! http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/itprovistadesktopui/thread/d24a6af9-4c42-4507-9562-fdf466c9d707 Another article was about Windows Server 2008 and they too experienced a corruption on all tasks. However, the solution was to remove some patch, which I'm pretty sure is not relevant on Windows 7: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserversecurity/thread/20922803-5afc-43f1-91a3-394aeb9d6d19 Now, I have recently added SP1 to my Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, about 1 week ago. I don't know if one of the patches installed with SP1 could have done it, and I have nothing to compare it against, as I hadn't looked at Task Scheduler until recently. So I wouldn't know if the problem existed prior to the SP1 or not. Any ideas what's going on here? Yousuf Khan

First run CHKDSK to make sure there is no disk errors Then I suggest making a new scheduled task and see if that is working. Scan you system for malware, Microsoft Security Essentials is my favorite, see my IT site for links My MVP is for the Windows Desktop Experience, i.e. Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 IT Remote Assistance is available for a fee. I am best with C++ and I am learning C# using Visual Studio 2010 Developer | Windows IT | Chess | Economics | Hardcore Games | Vegan Advocate | PC Reviews

First run CHKDSK to make sure there is no disk errors Then I suggest making a new scheduled task and see if that is working. Scan you system for malware, Microsoft Security Essentials is my favorite, see my IT site for links Okay, no problems with disk errors. I did create a little trivial message display task, and it worked properly. System is malware-free.Yousuf Khan

Guess you will need to recreate them all over. I push MSE as its free for XP up with no expiry If you manage to get eveyrthing worrking properly, you might want to clone the disk so if there is a problem you can copy it back see my it white papers My MVP is for the Windows Desktop Experience, i.e. Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 IT Remote Assistance is available for a fee. I am best with C++ and I am learning C# using Visual Studio 2010 Developer | Windows IT | Chess | Economics | Hardcore Games | Vegan Advocate | PC Reviews

Guess you will need to recreate them all over. I push MSE as its free for XP up with no expiry If you manage to get eveyrthing worrking properly, you might want to clone the disk so if there is a problem you can copy it back see my it white papers The problem is I don't know what all of these tasks were doing. They were all created by Windows or various apps, and the only reason I found out that they were corrupt was because I went in to inspect them. Can I read the actions in these task images directly with a text reader or something, to recreate them?Yousuf Khan