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
    2021-12-09T14:37:23+00:00

    I feel your pain too. Hence my very frustrated posts in this thread.

    I have an older HDD laptop that is still perfectly adequate for the applications I run on Windows, the issue is the f*****g Windows 10 OS itself taking over exactly as you say.

    Microsoft AGGRESSIVELY PUSHED this sh***y OS onto devices that are simply NOT CAPABLE of running it, this makes me VERY ANGRY due to the time I've wasted. I've been mislead and continue to pay the penalty.

    My simple work around, remember turn the laptop on at least 15 to 20 minutes before I want to use it. Although you can sign into Windows 10 in about 30 seconds of turning on, really it's still booting up until it finishes all the Windows Update, ComPatTelRunner, WaaSMedicAgent, SuperFetch and whatever else it decides to do to the computer as soon as you log in.

    So all they've created is the ability to log in during the early stages of booting up and you can't do much other than open Notepad until it finishes the thrashing. IMHO boot up is NOT complete until the OS leaves the CPU and HDD/SSD alone.

    Much of this is a very simple task scheduling fix, do not do all this **** as soon as the user logs in!

    Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Huh? Think Microsoft. Think!

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-03-02T01:38:55+00:00

    wmcole:

    On my system with HDD drive, running disk cleanup with the "windows update cleanup" option makes disk cleanup run for about 40 minutes, also. Much longer than omitting that option. On a second system with SSD drive, windows update cleanup makes disk cleanup run longer, but only a fraction of the time as required on my HDD drive system.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-03-02T01:34:25+00:00

    MarcHoppe:

    To report bugs/problems to Microsoft, use the Feedback Hub app on Win 10. You can access this app by searching for feedback on your windows 10 search box at lower left of your Win 10 window.

    I noticed you said you are running 20H2 19042.844. The .844 update was a "preview" cumulative update first released on Feb 24, 2021. Just out of curiosity, when was that particular update KB4601382 (OS Builds 19041.844 and 19042.844) Preview actually installed on your system? I don't know, but it is possible that waasmedic is invoked by/with/before/after a successful update. If KB4601382 was installed today (per your update history info) around the same time you were having system performance problems caused by waasmedic agent, then that update might also be the cause.

    I am guessing that one reason no MS tech resource has responded to this thread is that the original poster categorized it in "windows settings" subtopic, instead of a subtopic of windows update. It may be that "windows settings" does not get that much traffic and moderation. I have asked for MS responses to this thread in some other topic categories, but no luck so far.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-02-28T16:23:16+00:00

    This has just happened to me the thing is I had to wait for 2 minutes and its already solved and my Disk is back to the 21% Norm. I think it can fix itself by waiting it out as windows can finish updating and finalizing. It mostly depends on the speed of your computer to update.

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