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
    2021-02-25T19:22:33+00:00

    Happened to me again today, pm boot lot of disc activity, task manager showed this running. Ran Windows update 2 hours later - no updates available. Also Task Scheduler for Updates had stopped working from just after boot time from it's history. Rebooted, opened Updates, showed error with Try Again. Clicked & downloaded an update. Installed with reboot. This is 4th time happened since November, always mid term update and always appears to be Cumulative Update Preview for Net.Framework - significant ? If this happens just check Update & Security, reboot & should find error showing with 'requires attention ' top right corner. Sometimes 'Try again' still gives error, another reboot sorts. Evidently, problem caused by Microsoft.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-02-27T21:54:56+00:00

    Windows 10 has made my laptop almost unusable for up to to 15 minutes. WaasMedic, and System, etc running the hard drive at 100%.

    Hey Microsoft, Linux is FREE and runs much faster and more stable on every system I've installed it on than Win slow 10.

    But then Linux is an OPERATING SYSTEM not a Data Mining system. Come on Mr. Gates you've got all the money in the world how about just giving us a functioning Operating System for a change and stop trying to log every keystroke we make to squeeze every penny out of us ?

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-02-03T20:22:29+00:00

    I did not fix it. It just stopped using so much memory and disk space after a while. The problem has not happened since.

    I would be good to know what caused it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-02-04T10:12:20+00:00

    Hi not really PC usable after it has been on for a while but when I first start disc at 100% the same . Very annoying. Sorry cant help

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