Looks like the solution to this problem may be to fire up Disk Cleanup, go to admin mode, and select to clean up Windows Update Files. If anyone is still having the problem.

Yeah. I disabled the task. No more devicecensus. They can fix it when they rehire their QA team.

Task folder in taskschd.exe is: Microsoft/Windows/Device Information

If you disable that task,...

Does that actually fix the devicecensus.exe error, or does it simply make it not run?

I have the exact same problem. You can find answers.microsoft.com threads here, here, and here.

It seems to be related to KB4284835, that's when this process went bad.

I'm shutting it down in...

I don't know if it's sabotage or incompetence, but HomeGroup is awful if you're using LANMan shares. Glad it worked!

I have found that a number of problems with SMB resource publication can be solved by disabling the "HomeGroup Provider" service and setting "Function Discovery Resource Publication" to automatic. I...

This update broke sleep timers for both blanking the screen and putting the machine to sleep. I can do it manually and sleep works normally, but it will no longer do it on a timer.

I uninstalled,...

I don't know if this fix will last, but here's what I did.

It seems renaming the computer that was missing from Starling to STARLING made it appear on all the network browsing.

You have to do...

Yeah, that's because the Master Browser of the network seems to work properly with this bug. The first machine you turn on becomes the Master Browser if all the other machines are off.

And in epic LMGTFY fashion I found it here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2696547

The commands to turn SMB 3 back on are:


sc.exe config lanmanworkstation depend=...

This totally works, but how do you undo it after MS fixes the issue with Samba 3?

Are you using a Microsoft account? I've had trouble accessing shares from within a Microsoft account. The only solution was to create a Microsoft account on the host machine and log in to that. The...