Device Census Stopped Working Problem

Anonymous
2018-06-22T23:16:47+00:00

I have recently noticed when viewing my reliability monitor that every day around the same time 3 am - 4 am, windows shows that a program called "devicecensus.exe" has stopped working and notes it as a "critical event". My question is should I be worried about this and if so what are the potential fixes? Also is this application an integral part of Windows and if I delete it from System32 will it have an effect on my PC in any shape or form?

Thanks in advance for the responses and here are some of the error details if it helps:

Problem signature

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH

Application Name: devicecensus.exe

Application Version: 10.0.17134.1

Application Timestamp: 79a09a4b

Fault Module Name: WaaSAssessment.dll

Fault Module Version: 10.0.17134.1

Fault Module Timestamp: b7ab6594

Exception Code: c0000005

Exception Offset: 0000000000008ee5

OS Version: 10.0.17134.2.0.0.256.48

Locale ID: 1033

Additional Information 1: 91f2

Additional Information 2: 91f294f44a03f9fda838805399465eda

Additional Information 3: ada5

Additional Information 4: ada50e612b0ea4dc151ec1a740a42603

Files that help describe the problem

WERInternalMetadata.xml

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-07-24T00:47:39+00:00

    Is device census only related with webcam or with all other devices' drivers such as, graphic, printer, or wi-fi/wired NIC, etc?

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-07-23T12:51:45+00:00

    No. If it were, every Windows 10 computer in the world would have been affected.

    I have decided to reset one of my affected devices and see if it'll fix the problem. So far, I've only seen this problem on machines that have been updated from v1709.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-07-23T02:42:56+00:00

    Is this what causing device-census related errors?

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-07-22T23:33:38+00:00

    Getting this error on all win10 pc's running 1803, so something 6/28/2018 when it started.

    Log Name:      Application

    Source:        Application Error

    Date:          7/22/2018 5:04:58 PM

    Event ID:      1000

    Task Category: (100)

    Level:         Error

    Keywords:      Classic

    User:          N/A

    Computer:      DESKTOP-C7MSO9M

    Description:

    Faulting application name: devicecensus.exe, version: 10.0.17673.1005, time stamp: 0x79a09a4b

    Faulting module name: WaaSAssessment.dll, version: 10.0.17134.1, time stamp: 0xb7ab6594

    Exception code: 0xc0000005

    Fault offset: 0x0000000000008ee5

    Faulting process id: 0x2e34

    Faulting application start time: 0x01d422104b581eb4

    Faulting application path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\devicecensus.exe

    Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\WaaSAssessment.dll

    Report Id: 75d6d06e-0774-49ed-8713-dd95fe56a512

    Faulting package full name: 

    Faulting package-relative application ID: 

    Event Xml:

    <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

      <System>

        <Provider Name="Application Error" />

        <EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>

        <Level>2</Level>

        <Task>100</Task>

        <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

        <TimeCreated SystemTime="2018-07-22T23:04:58.926384000Z" />

        <EventRecordID>3256</EventRecordID>

        <Channel>Application</Channel>

        <Computer>DESKTOP-C7MSO9M</Computer>

        <Security />

      </System>

      <EventData>

        <Data>devicecensus.exe</Data>

        <Data>10.0.17673.1005</Data>

        <Data>79a09a4b</Data>

        <Data>WaaSAssessment.dll</Data>

        <Data>10.0.17134.1</Data>

        <Data>b7ab6594</Data>

        <Data>c0000005</Data>

        <Data>0000000000008ee5</Data>

        <Data>2e34</Data>

        <Data>01d422104b581eb4</Data>

        <Data>C:\WINDOWS\system32\devicecensus.exe</Data>

        <Data>C:\Windows\System32\WaaSAssessment.dll</Data>

        <Data>75d6d06e-0774-49ed-8713-dd95fe56a512</Data>

        <Data>

        </Data>

        <Data>

        </Data>

      </EventData>

    </Event>

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-07-12T13:19:54+00:00

    I installed the latest cumulative update that was released on Tuesday with patch level 17134.165 but the daily crash has not been fixed together with other Windows 10 April 2018 update problems such as some mkv video files cannot have their thumbnails generated in File Explorer unless a thumbnail generator like Icaros thumbnails is installed. The videos play well but most of their details are not loaded when right clicking the file and navigating to the details tab. Icaros thumbnails also loads the details in the details tab.

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