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
    2021-05-28T05:54:29+00:00

    Couple of times lately, picked up from Norton 360 performance tab. TIworker running. As with yesterday PM, logged on as normal, 40 minutes later cooling fan cut in, for a couple of minutes, checked what had caused issue and was TIworker using CPU. I understand that this is related to installation of UPDATES which does normally run during that process. But why run 40 minutes after boot - can find no record of any installations since May WUDs so what was being installed. Did find something a few weeks ago that had been updated but not recorded anywhere as a recently installed update. Is MS spyware deeper than we thought?

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-05-27T22:15:02+00:00

    ... and it appears to be laced throughout the registry (all the control set hives, system, software etc.) From a quick look at SysInternals Process Monitor output it looks like those registry keys are opened, modified etc. over a hundred times during a boot on a day when WaasMedic IS NOT scheduled to run. (Haven't been able to capture one of my wait-75-minutes-til-usable boot-ups.) I'm no expert in interpreting the ProcMon output but it looks like, even if you tried to flush WaasMedicAgent from the registry, it would simply "repair" itself and keep spying on you anyway. IOW, you likely can't get rid of it except by going to Linux or iOS.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-05-27T15:46:01+00:00

    Paul:

    More recent submissions to Feedback Hub about WaasMedic hurting system performance:

    May 27 https://aka.ms/AAcoyha "WaasMedic Agent Exe" is taking a lot of disk usage which prevents my PC from working

    May 27   https://aka.ms/AAcoqpi WaasMedic

    May 23 https://aka.ms/AAcrbp5  reduce intensity of Waas Medic Agent disk usage

    Note: If you have a problem with WaasMedic Agent hurting your system performance,

    please use the Feedback Hub app on Windows 10 to report the problem to Microsoft Engineers.

    -- This forum is a user-to-user help forum. The vast majority of problem responses here come from volunteers.

    -- Matters in this forum are not automatically passed on to Microsoft engineers for resolution.

    -- The “official” method to report technical problems to Microsoft is to use the feedback hub app on Windows 10.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-05-25T21:01:31+00:00

    Paul:

    Search of feedback hub reports shows 2 new waasmedic reports from other people since May 24

    Feedback on May 24: https://aka.ms/AAcohth

    Feedback on May 25:https://aka.ms/AAcoaqm

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