Windows 10: Cannot find Device Association Service

Hi, I was trying to add a Bluetooth device to my laptop but the dialog immediately crashes after selecting the type of device. The same is true when I try to add printers as well. After doing some searching, I saw that enabling the Device Association Service fixed the issue. However, I cannot locate this service. The closest thing I have is the DeviceAssociationBroker_dba41, which after enabling changes nothing. Is there a way to restore this service? Thank you!

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Device Association Driver Service

Ok, in three sentences:
What "devices"?
In what does "association" consist?
Purpose of such "Device Association"?

 

File Association Helper in Startup

from another forum on May 6, 2018:
You can uninstall File Association Helper in less than 5 minutes. Here are the steps to follow:

Step 1 — Uninstall File Association Helper via Control Panel

Simply go to Start > type Control Panel > double click the first result to launch Control Panel.
Then go to Uninstall a program > locate File Association Helper in the list and select it
Select Uninstall > wait until Windows completely removes FAH from your PC.
Restart your PC.
Step 2 — Clean the Registry Editor

Now that you removed the program, you also need to remove any traces or file changes associated with it. To do that, you need to open the Registry Editor.

Go to Start > type “regedit” > launch the Registry Editor
Locate the following keys and delete them:
KEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareFile Association Helper
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareFile Association Helper

Step 3 — Check all the hidden files and folders

File Association Helper may have left behind various hidden files and folders. In order to completely remove the software, you can also need to delete these files. Here’s how to do that:

Simply go to Start > type Control Panel > double click the first result to launch Control Panel. On Windows 10, you can also type “Show hidden files and folder” in the search box. Then simply check Show hidden files, folders and drives and jump straight to step number 3.
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Go to Folder > select Show Hidden Files and Folders
Locate the following folders:
Crogram FilesFile Association Helper
C*Biggrinocument and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataFile Association Helper
C*Biggrinocuments and Settings%USER%Application DataFile Association Helper

4. Delete them and then restart your PC.

Step 4 — Empty Temp Folder

The final step is to clean the Temp folder where all the temporary files are stored. To empty the folder, go to Start and type the %temp% command.

This will open the Temp folders. You can now empty them. If the system displays an error message when deleting some files, leave them. The files might be in use by Windows services or some running software.

Step 5 — Use a dedicated tool to remove software leftovers

After you performed all the steps listed above, you have removed 99.9% of all the files and folders left behind by File Association Helper. However, there may be a few file that escaped your scrutiny. In order to make sure that you have removed all of them, you can also use a dedicated software uninstaller.

These applications are specially designed to remove the selected application along with all of its files and registry entries. As a result, the application will be completely removed from your PC.

There are many great uninstaller tools available on the market, but the best are IOBit Uninstaller and Revo Uninstaller so feel free to try any of these tools.

 

Device Association Service affected by Undetectable Malware

Multiple computers on my home network have been infected by an Android Chinese TV Streaming device owned by someone who refuses to get rid of it.

It is causing my Device Association Service to take up 25% CPU on one of my computers until I forcefully terminate it every time I start up the computer, and 50% of my CPU on this one, until I forcefully terminate the process.

On both devices it installed itself 2000 - 13000 times (one for each port) of which I was able to uninstall them all using third party software. However even after removing all of them, Device Association Service is still going haywire. Windows Malware Detector
cannot detect this virus. I have blocked the IP of this device using Windows Firewall and forcing the owner to get rid of this infected android streaming box is not an option as they won't listen to reason.

Is there any way I can find out what procedures Device Association Service is being forced to run and how to prevent it from doing so? I've disabled bluetooth, and uninstalled any suspicious looking devices in device manager, especially those that have been
hidden.