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
    2021-09-12T13:19:41+00:00

    Yes we've been saying this for months. You can delete the files in the LCU Package for Rollup Fix folders but Windows will just put them back up to three at a time. This is either a serious bug in Win 10 or it's the way M$ is intentionally causing serious system slowdowns in order to get us to buy SSDs. Either way M$ remains silent on the issue and to my knowledge has not responded to even one Feedback Hub report.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-09-12T10:30:52+00:00

    Feedback link with log file: https://aka.ms/AAdsqzb

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  3. JX313 7,050 Reputation points
    2021-09-12T10:22:31+00:00

    amd64 folders are NOT from AMD (even if it's used in AMD-powered devices). You should NEVER delete those files! Instead, press Win key + R and type cleanmgr and press Enter > after the first scan, choose Cleanup system files > after the 2nd scan, choose all options and proceed to delete them.

    Suggest reading before deciding to delete:

    1. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/why-are-there-amd64-files-on-an-intel-machine/7482ee8f-511a-45c0-b3a3-8542a74801c9
    2. https://superuser.com/questions/804490/huge-amount-of-amd64-files-in-winsxs-8-93gb-what-are-they
    3. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/amd64-microsoft-windows-files/59410fb5-001e-4e09-9e19-30236526d1a2

    Those are system folders you shouldn't delete. If you do, it could corrupt your system and may need reinstallation / InPlace upgrade to fix it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-09-12T05:32:51+00:00

    Thanks. I must be dizzy, daffy or both. I'll swear earlier clicks on Subscribe only yielded another "Subscribe" option. For now, I got what I need. Thanks for your patience and quick reply.

    fm

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