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
    2021-06-22T10:32:13+00:00

    I  am  having  a  similar  problem  waasmedic  disk  usage  keeps  shooting up  to  about 90% rarely  below  30%

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-06-21T20:03:49+00:00

    Here is my Feedback: https://aka.ms/AAcyt93

    When we can expect any solution? It's already been 3 months from the original post and sill more and more people have this problem!

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-06-21T15:30:18+00:00

    I've already done that and so have several other people who have posted here. Please read the thread before posting.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-06-21T14:45:09+00:00

    I just checked and there is not one failed update on my laptop going all the way back to September of last year. Today Waas Medic was running and chewing away at my hard drive for half an hour. I finally just chose to "end task". A manual check for updates shows the system is fully up to date or at least no updates are offered. I'm running 20H2 Build 19042.844 and I have not done an update file clean up.

    Does anyone know how to report this BUG to Microsoft ? They obviously don't read this forum.

    I'm about ready to install a Linux distro and dual boot it with Winblows 10 and just let Windows die. There are a couple of things I still need on the windows side otherwise I'd overwrite it and just install Linux.

    Use Windows Feedback and fill in the form. Ensure you put in as many details as possible explaining the situation.

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