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
    2021-12-09T12:00:12+00:00

    [quote]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.[/quote]

    This. ONE HUNDRED BILLION TIMES THIS.

    There's no winning from Microsoft so I caved and swapped all mechanical harddrives for SSD's to prevent my computers from grinding to a complete stop for dozens of minutes. I can't express the frustration this has caused me without going on a full on rant with swearwords not suitable for anyone under 30 or over 60...

    So far the SSD trick is the only one that I ever found that actually works against Windows trashing your harddisk for minutes on end.

    The only thing that works, FOR NOW.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-10-30T23:23:11+00:00

    You do know that Windows 11 REQUIRES you to be logged in to a Microsloth account in order to INSTALL AND USE Windows 11. If you do not log into your MS account, you can only use apps from the MS store ("S-mode"). The "SAS" (Software as Service) portions of the OS that are needed to load and run non- MS store apps will not download / execute so you WILL NOT be able to use anything on your system that is not downloadable / executable from the MS Store.

    This was why MS spent so much time spying on our systems with WaasMedic, and "user experience" spyware: to find out how to parcel out OS modules to run ONLY MS store apps from those that run 3rd party applications. That way the apps could be coded to run in MS Edge, and only those things that run in Edge would be allowed when not logged into an MS account.

    Enjoy your Windows 11 "permanent suckling on the MS teat" OS. I have made my last Windows OS update. No OS that requires permanent internet access and connection to a data spyware / privacy violating / personal data theft company will ever find its way on to ANY of my devices.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-10-25T01:57:36+00:00

    Probably because they are too busy data-mining all those who updated to Windows 11, something that will NEVER happen on my 3 workstations, two laptops and one Surface.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-10-24T22:39:05+00:00

    Has a miracle occurred ???? I don't want to jinx myself but for the last two Sundays WaaS has hardly run at all. Today it only ran for at the most two minutes on a system that it would run on for over 12 minutes in the past. Was a fix actually delivered on Patch Tuesday? It's too early to tell for sure but at this point it appears the WaaS Medic Agent issue may have been solved even on systems with HDDs.

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