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
    2021-08-21T17:50:33+00:00

    I put off switching to Win 10 because I just didn't like the look of it. Switched over last month because there were some games I was interested in that wouldn't run on 7. What a disaster. Before, I had 51 processes running, now there's 122. My machine gradually gets slower until I have to restart, which is 2 or 3 times a day. I noticed the process that this thread is about for the first time today, so thought I'd see what it was. I've killed every useless process and app that I can find, but 10 is still a giant step backwards from 7. Microsoft needs to stop trying to make things easy and cool for the slow learners and just give us a working OS. I'm going to complain to my state AG office about anti-trust and fraud issues. Tired of this nonsense.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-08-16T17:22:06+00:00

    Thank you for your help.

    I will see during this week if in my case switching off WUDs also do not stop WassMedicAgent running,

    if yes it does it would be very bad, because it is something that it should not be expected.

    Thanks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-08-16T13:52:03+00:00

    On July 7th received an update from MS in their attempt to resolve the issue with PrintNightmare. Caused computer to Blue screen a couple of times, also, for some reason, reinstalled FlashPlayer which MS removed in February. Removed their update which apparently caused various users reporting Blue Screen, unable to print, unable to gain internet access etc. Had to do a system restore to remove Flash then halted Updates, eventually turned on again on 20th. During this time WaasMedic was still running every Sunday on schedule plus a second run later in the week. On Sunday 18th it ran for 7 seconds, the Monday, ran for my normal 6 - 8 minutes, first half of this unable to do anything. So, in my case switching off WUDs did not stop WassMedic running.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-08-16T12:51:39+00:00

    I'm not sure. As I have never done this. But it may work. I don't see any reason it wouldn't!

    Seeing how this is an automated process, it should stop this from running in the background.

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