WaasMedic Agent Exe stopping me from working

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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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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.

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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2021-08-13T22:04:34+00:00

The most disturbing part is that Microsoft is obviously aware that this conversation is ongoing, yet all we're getting is radio silence.

I never considered Linux before, but there's no way I'm sticking around for Windows 11.
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2021-08-13T19:56:12+00:00

Why is an OS reading and writing so much with a user doing absolutely nothing and its a simple desktop system with no data processing? What is it doing? I have spent my life working on Unix machines and they just don't do this. A harddrive wil spin when a user app makes it spin. That's it. The people working at Microsoft have very weird ideas on what an OS should be. My next document editing laptop will without doubt be Apple. I have come with Microsoft since Windows 2.1 but this is it. I'm done.
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2021-08-03T16:24:36+00:00

This waasmedic problem happened when I turned on my computer. I had not done anything. The disk is 100% and I can't do anything. I am now on a different computer.
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Anonymous

2021-07-10T00:59:30+00:00

M$ just rolled out a "fix" for the PrintNightmare security vulnerability that was recently discovered. It took quite a long time to fully install on my systems here and I read that it doesn't even fix the issue. The security issue is so serious they're even going to release a fix for Windows 7. Windows is simply a horrible operating system. I'm already running several distros of Linux. It's a far superior OS but lacks support from software developers but we're seeing that start to change. Several developers in the music production field have begun to release Linux versions of their software. Hopefully by 2025 Linux will have enough support to make Windows irrelevant.

For now you can go into services and disable the Print Spooler service until M$ pulls their head out and releases a real fix.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/microsofts-emergency-patch-fails-to-fix-critical-printnightmare-vulnerability/
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