WaasMedic Agent Exe stopping me from working

Anonymous
2021-01-02T19:26:13+00:00

My computer slowed to a crawl. I cannot work. I checked task manager and saw a process waas Medic agent exe is the culprit. It is using 2.8 mb of memory and 1.2 mbs of disk usage.

I understand this is a Microsoft process. What I don't understand is what give Microsoft the right to take over my computer whenever it wants to and stop me from working.

How do I stop this?

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Anonymous
2021-03-16T19:13:13+00:00

Update (5/5/21) - Editing with some additional details.

Can some of you reporting high CPU or high disk usage of the WaasMedic agent create a Feedback Hub entry for me and share the Feedback URL on this thread?

The most important part would be the 'Recreate my Problem' recording while you see the high resource usage in Task Manager.

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I want to promote some of these Feedback entries for investigation.

Updates:

Thank you for those who have been trying to file feedback. In some cases the system performance has prevented the use of Recreate my problem.

The Feedback is still useful without the recording, I will still raise those entries.

It is also useful if the Feedback is done shortly after the system is no longer experiencing the high disk usage, I will be calling out those entries as well.

Finally, I was not clear about the best Category and Sub Category selections. Please use Category: Install and update Sub Category: Downloading, installing, and configuring Windows Updates

Thanks,

Paul...

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-05-25T14:12:28+00:00

    Problem #one: The stealing of resources (Not limited to WaasMedic) happens at boot up. At this point I do not have anything else running. The resources are all gone, so clicking on a browser would take a few minutes. Not being able to remember things very well, I would have to look it up, on how to do it. If I printed it out, I would not remember where it is either. We are talking enough time for the problem to have shifted of gone completely. Therefore nothing to record.

    Problem #two: No one even remotely connected with MicroStupid has even a grain of trust to me that has been earned. Not sure what the recording does and how much information people would receive.

    Problem #three: The amount of time that this Hub stuff would take is a lot greater than just going into Task Manager and killing the process and going back to work.

    Problem#four: I seriously do not believe that MicroStupid does NOT know about this problem. 1.) They designed the operating system to work this way. 2.) Waas whatever is an intentional addition to the system and they are NOT going to change it.

    Problem#five: The problem is NOT with Wass whatchacallit, there are a lot more programs running that I do not need, do not want, and did not ask for. The problem is MicroStupid. You remember the joke about insanity? The one where anyone trying the same thing continuously, over and over, repeatedly and expecting a different result? Like a Judge hits your car intentionally, so you go to court and the same Judge is sitting on the bench to hear your case. Do you REALLY believe that Judge will listen?

    So, the so called answers I see here make me think that it is a waste of time to be here. I don't know yet. I will continue to take screen shots. Even the Paint program shows the message "Not Responding" when I go to save the screenshot. I got a screenshot of that too.

    The Internet being what it is, if someone says that they work with or for MicroStupid, can we trust that either?

    I just do not know what the answer is or where to go to find out. So far, this is the only place I have gone.

    I just checked on the Feedback that I submitted. It does not show up. hhmmm. Interesting.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-05-25T05:54:01+00:00

    Update to my posting of yesterday morning. Should have kept my mouth shut - WaasMedic ran this morning for about 4 minutes during an unscheduled run, bit more pronounced than Sunday's scheduled run - couple of apps slow in opening  but effect tailed off during run. Why don't MS sort this out  - they created issue so they know the cause.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-05-24T13:36:14+00:00

    Thank you , Abhishek1M and tooney(2)"). I have found your feedback entries and promoted them.

    Rick HB, it is ok if the Recreate my problem recording was not successful, just give me the Feedback URL from the submission.

    Paul...

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-05-24T06:06:00+00:00

    Had issue 2nd May (Sunday) - mouse/keyboard/taskbar  totally unresponsive  (don't know if connected with WaasMedic) - Control/Delete allowed access to Task manager (only way in). WaasMedic running, managed to halt & then had to force shutdown by holding down On/Off button 5 seconds. Along with Sunday runs, 3rd, 10th & 17th May (Mondays), WaasMedic also ran. Yesterday's run lasted about 8 mins but hardly noticeable, expected to run on boot this morning but it did not. Also actual boot seemed quicker & 'cleaner'. Is this the first stage of a CURE'?

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