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
    2021-03-26T07:37:10+00:00

    i have also been having this issue, most recently its been a system app called system.exe(defrag) it has to do with maintenance being done automatically by the system. i figured out there are three things doing this and if you go into task manager and go to services and open services you can go down the list till you find the windows search service and right click and go to properties and end task and disable it also do the same with superfetch and  sysmain. or if you prefer on your keyboard press windows key type command prompt then select run as admin, click yes to allow. the command prompt will display enter command net.exe stop "windows search" this will stop the system program from running. you can do the same with the other two system programs and see if that fixes your problem. hope this helps good luck.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-03-20T18:58:07+00:00

    Paul:

    I wanted to send feedback about waasmedic agent slowing my system to a crawl. In Feedback Hub submission process, after I select "report a problem" feedback hub wants me to choose a problem category and sub-category.

    Pick Desktop Environment > All other issues

    Paul...

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-03-19T22:35:42+00:00

    waas medic is using a looped update on my computer so its contantly on how do i stop it?

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-03-19T05:59:58+00:00

    This reply is wholesome. Facts must be told, windows slows down in the long term because of these background applications and MS has to do something aboubt it. Please!

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