Из серии "удивительное рядом".
Описание проблемы
Ошибки Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) из набора Windows Kits 8.1, после установки обновлений и перезагрузки. Приложение не работает.
Диагностика
В Event Viewer по проблеме целая пачка связанных событий:
	- (ID 7034) The Windows Assessment Services Service service terminated unexpectedly.  It has done this 1 time(s).  (Сервис запустился вручную, но через две минуты упал.)
- (Warning ID219)  The driver \Driver\WudfRd failed to load for the device SWD\WPDBUSENUM\{ca63225e-61ec-11e9-8108-806e6f6e6963}#0000000000100000.
- (ID 0 / RelaxService) Could not initialize relax.  Exception Command netsh advfirewall firewall set rule name="@FirewallAPI.dll,-30253" new enable=yes localip=any remoteip=any failed on localhost with error 'Incorrect function.
- (ID 1026 / .NET Runtime) Application: relaxservice.exe Framework Version: v4.0.30319 Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception. Exception Info: System.NullReferenceException
- (варнинг ID 2003 / Perflib) The configuration information of the performance library "C:\Windows\system32\BEPerfDll.dll" for the "Backup Exec" service does not match the trusted performance library information stored in the registry. The functions in this library will not be treated as trusted.
- (ID 1008 / Perflib) The Open Procedure for service "BITS" in DLL "C:\Windows\System32\bitsperf.dll" failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the error code.
- (ID 1023 / Perflib) Windows cannot load the extensible counter DLL MSSQL$ADK. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the Windows error code.
- (ID 1023 / Perflib) Windows cannot load the extensible counter DLL MSSQL$BKUPEXEC. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the Windows error code.
- (ID 1023 / Perflib) Windows cannot load the extensible counter DLL SQLAgent$ADK. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the Windows error code.
- (ID 1023 / Perflib) Windows cannot load the extensible counter DLL SQLAgent$BKUPEXEC. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the Windows error code.
- (ID 1000 / Application Error) Faulting application name: relaxservice.exe, version: 6.3.9600.16384, time stamp: 0x5215ce51 Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
События приложения ADK ясности не вносит:
Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Error
Date:          5/28/2019 2:57:54 PM
Event ID:      1000
Task Category: Application Crashing Events
Level:        Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      windowshost.tune-it.ru
Description:
Faulting application name: relaxservice.exe, version: 6.3.9600.16384, time stamp: 0x5215ce51
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00007ffd91de6bf1
Faulting process id: 0x11f0
Faulting application start time: 0x01d515379fc4f3d5
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Windows Assessment Toolkit\Windows Assessment Services\relaxservice.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: de92106d-812a-11e9-810a-005056ae71c4
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Причина и решение проблемы
Причину следует искать в событии (ID 0 / RelaxService) :
 
Command netsh advfirewall firewall set rule name="@FirewallAPI.dll,-30253" new enable=yes localip=any remoteip=any failed on localhost with error 'Incorrect function.
и всего  навсего ВКЛЮЧИТЬ выключенный сервис брандмауэра/сетевого экрана/firewall Windows.