Task image is corrupt or has been tampered with 0x80041321

How do you find what the actual corrupted task is?

I've tried to run Windows Backup and it does not seem to "remember" any past backups done. (I must not have done a REAL good backup since about 1-26-2015).

I've run this MANY times in the past and save things to my external drive of 1TB. If there is not enough space it asks me to delete some files which I do. I recently just ran this andit asks me to "Re-set up" the files I wish to back up. After I do this I get the ERROR 0x80041321. I have a WIN7 OS x64-bit with an internal 1 TB drive (plenty of room here)

I have tried going into the TaskScheduler to find out problems and I get error messages that the following tasks were "corrupted or tampered with".

AD RMS Rights Management

Verified Publisher CertStoreCheck

Periodic Scan Retry

Dispatch Recovery Tasks

Background Coding Surveyor

AutoWake

Service Restart Task

Windows Backup Monitor

Automatic Backup

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I have checked out related posts at these links to try to troubleshoot: (my problem seems similar but modifications to posts are needed)

Task image is corrupt or has been tampered with 0x80041321 - Microsoft Community

MS10-092: Vulnerability in Task Scheduler could allow for elevation of privilege

Win 7 Backup Error 0x80041321  https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/6d9781e1-ac66-4488-b7d5-d09d8c26a9b0/win-7-backup-error-0x80041321?forum=w7itproui

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1. I have tried a system restore to a month ago but this did not work. [I may have System Restore issues too on some occasions]
2. I have Tweaking.com Backup Registry for early September and a more recent one from late February. Restoration of either did not correct the problem.
3. One of the post at the last link above states:

"According to your description, this would be caused by some corrupted files; I suggest you try the following steps to check how it works:

Commonly Task Scheduler task image is located in: C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsBackup, please take a backup of WindowsBackup file and then delete it, then see if the issue occurs."

I tried to look at this Tasks file location for WindowsBackup but I could not find it.  Where should it be? [I realize that most of this post is for someone else and I need different instructions]

I am hesitant to just delete any file/key. I need to know what the CLSID etc. actually are before doing anything of this nature etc.

I would appreciate any assistance to this issue. Thank you.

Ok, I know this is an old post, but it seems people still hit this situation, myself included. I'd like to detail my experience before asking my question. I know this has to do with Windows Home Server, but that's just the symptom of the same underlying problem related to this thread.

Starting at the beginning, I was running Vista Ultimate 32-bit with Windows Home Server 2011. I (finally) got around to upgrading to Win 7 Ultimate 32-bit. After a couple of days of installing windows updates, I finally got to the point where the dust settled and wanted to get a backup using WHS. It turns out to my surprise that WHS thought my computer was offline. After figuring out that an update caused this, I used system restore to go back to a previous point in time. I had to do this several times due to so many updates being installed in such a short period, there weren't many restore points to choose from. Also, at 1 point, I was disconnected from the network and couldn't get to the Internet, WHS or any other home computer. It was a long process to selectively install a few updates at a time then check my network connectivity and create a system restore point. After it seemed like all the required updates were installed, WHS still thought my computer was offline.  I uninstalled the WHS connector software thinking a fresh install under the new Win 7 OS would do the trick however, it wouldn't install. When I started digging into the Event Viewer on both WHS and my computer, it pointed me to a log file on my computer that detailed the task related error message that brought me to this page.

The marked answer seemed overkill but other posts on this thread pointed to a security bulletin and update that caused the problem. I could no longer see any updates applied prior to my upgrade in order to attempt to remove the alleged culprit update. I had reservations about deleting all subkeys of the Schedule registry key but it seemed I had no alternative other than booting with the WHS client computer restore CD and doing a full restore back to Vista but I knew that was a step backward and I would have to go through this whole process again. Moving forward, I confirmed opening Task Scheduler resulted in 52 errors as it tried to open all the registered tasks. I closed Scheduler, backed up my registry and the System32\Tasks folder. I then deleted all registry subkeys under Schedule as noted in this thread as well as deleted all the files in the System32\Tasks folder.

Task Scheduler now opens without errors but is empty (no tasks) as expected. I went to my backed up Tasks folder and noticed all 123 files didn't have an .xml extension although opening a couple in Notepad confirmed they are xml files. I realized attempting to import one that they needed to ne named with the .xml extension (not mentioned in the answer for this thread).

Anyway, I was able to finally install the connector software which created several WHS-related tasks. I am in the process of doing a backup.

I feel like, at a minimum, certain system related tasks should be restored. Is there a way to get all the required Windows system related tasks back without importing one by one? It seems like a huge task to do this manually, ie renaming each xml file with the appropriate extension then importing it into Task Scheduler. 

I read about a system refresh in Win 8. Does this, or something similar to it, exist for Win 7?

Thanks for your patience with my long post.