Windows 10: Device Census

Why is my device census has stopped working ando how to fix.

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Device Census

Hi Roy,

We understand your concern regarding Device Census. DeviceCensus.exe is part of Microsoft Windows Operating System, and it is an important part of it. For us to effectively assist you with your concern, we would like to know the following:

• When did you start noticing this behavior?
• Did you make any significant changes to your computer prior to the issue?
• Does the number of DeviceCensus.exe increase only when you're playing games?
• Have you taken any troubleshooting steps to prevent this from happening?

Regards.

 

Device Census is Using Webcam

Hi katie,

Thank you for providing us an input regarding this issue.

Device census is just a part of multiple processes that collect information about usage or errors and reports it back to Microsoft.

To disable the data collection, disable the scheduled tasks that triggers those processes.

Follow the steps below:

• Press the Windows key and type Task Scheduler.
• Expand Task Scheduler Library folder tree to /Microsoft/Windows/Device Information/
• Right-click on "Device" task and click on Disable.

Feel free to post back if you need further help.

 

Device Census

"I get what Device Census is and does"

I have zero Device Census processes running, and had never heard of Device Census until your post.

I'm guessing this may be because on day one of installing Win10 I disabled
all of the options in Settings > Privacy that have the slightest

whiff of telemetry about them.

"Device Census plays a vital role in collecting metadata information on your device."
Not to me it ain't vital...

- However, with only 19% RAM in use (fairly typical if you have 16GB RAM ) I wouldn't think having all these barely running processes

is going to hurt gaming performance. Do you actually notice better performance when disabling background processes ?

This was a useful trick in days of small quantities of RAM and slow single core cpu's, but I haven't bothered in years and didn't think

it was much help any more, if ever.

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