Task Manager crashes

[iron2000]

Recently Task Manager decides to crash on open.
After that these 2 entries are created in the Event Viewer:

Event ID: 1000, Source: Application Error

Faulting application name: taskmgr.exe, version: 6.2.9200.16384, time stamp: 0x50107c26Faulting module name: taskmgr.exe, version: 6.2.9200.16384, time stamp: 0x50107c26
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000039924
Faulting process ID: 0x1328
Faulting application start time: 0x01cdcee654954ac6
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\system32\taskmgr.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\taskmgr.exe
Report ID: 92d6426f-3ad9-11e2-be98-c86000e3f802
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Event ID: 1001, Source: Windows Error Reporting

Fault bucket 74130926, type 4Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0


Problem signature:
P1: taskmgr.exe
P2: 6.2.9200.16384
P3: 50107c26
P4: taskmgr.exe
P5: 6.2.9200.16384
P6: 50107c26
P7: c0000005
P8: 0000000000039924
P9: 
P10: 


Attached files:
C:\Users\iron2000\AppData\Local\Temp\WER10DE.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml


These files may be available here:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_taskmgr.exe_9464f8ff547e9fefe53df6550aa61d6bee329d_104c15c0


Analysis symbol: 
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report ID: 92d6426f-3ad9-11e2-be98-c86000e3f802
Report Status: 0
Hashed bucket: b9d336880e24d2b384ab9f8843021eeb

I suppose the second entry is sent by Error Reporting to MS?

Does anyone have a clue to what is causing the crash?

 

[MrShowdown]

try running SFC /SCANFILE=C:\Windows\system32\taskmgr.exe (run on CMD as Admin)

 

[iron2000]

My recent install is the USB 3 Boost by ASUS.
Removed it and cleaned up the poorly done uninstall with an unofficial tool.

Did the SFC scan and it reports no integrity problems.
Task Manager seems to be back proper.
Monitoring before marking as solved.

 

[iron2000]

No good.

Still getting those crashes once in a while.
It would crash and when you try to run it again it reverts back to simple mode and it would sometime crash again.

 

[brummyfan]

Try a refresh and see whether it fixes the problem:http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2293-refresh-windows-8-a.html

 

[iron2000]

Don't think I want to do a refresh and lose all those settings.

Anyway I did a sfc /scannow.
It said it repaired some corrupted files but didn't fix the Task Manager crashes.

 

[znod]

~iron 2000:

An option that I have not seen mentioned WRT Windows 8 is to do a repair install--which under earlier Win versions might fix system problems while leaving everything else intact. You'd need to thoroughly back up all your files for safety, although repair installs have been very safe historically. While I don't know why a repair install wouldn't work on Windows 8, I have not tried the procedure on Windows 8 nor have heard of anyone using it on Windows 8. To do a repair install, run the Windows 8 installer from within Windows on your machine. Choose the upgrade option (i.e., obviously, don't do a clean install). Of course, you must accept compete responsibility for trying this procedure. As indicated, I am not completely sure, WRT Windows 8, what will happen or if the procedure can even be applied. You also could try upgrading Win8 to Win8, so to speak, by choosing the upgrade option having started up to your DVD (presumably you have one).

 

[brummyfan]

You could also try uninstalling the recent updates to Windows update, removing one by one starting from the latest update.