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?

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Settings

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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
    2021-06-24T22:07:39+00:00

    Another possibility with Linux compatibility is OpenOffice (https://www.openoffice.org/).  Been around a long time, compatible with MS Office document formats.  The only drawback is if you have complex Access databases - while you can import the tables into OpenOffice, none of the forms, queries, reports or MS Basic functions will transfer (the only reason I still have Office Professional 2007 on my machine - too lazy to try  to recreate the hundreds of queries, reports, functions etc. I have in this one legacy DB I am still responsible for maintaining.)

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-06-22T01:21:48+00:00

    Where is your solution Lucian ? If John had bothered to read the thread he would know that several people have already tried his "advice" and he could have saved himself some time by not posting something we've already done. I've contributed as much as anybody has if not more. If I had a solution beyond the registry hack I would share it here. Don't be an ******

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-06-21T21:33:08+00:00

    Got it!

    Paul...

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-06-21T21:28:23+00:00

    Were you able to add my feedback to your list?

    https://aka.ms/AAcoru4

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