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
    2021-07-04T12:16:33+00:00

    MS treating their customers with complete contempt. We have had one reply from a so-called MS employee, where is his feedback? They don't want to know our problems & tell us the TRUTH about this issue, even any normal person/company would have the common courtesy to so. They are now pushing Windows 11 - will this be completely free of MS spyware - I doubt it, will surely have more intrusions into our lives with even more of their data harvesting.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-06-20T10:23:07+00:00

    This has made my wife's PC crawl to an unusable state on an almost daily basis. The WaasMedicAgent doesn't appear to have anything to do with patching or remediation as it's most active during periods following patches. I am loath to migrate my wife to a boot SSD until this debacle has been fixed. In the meantime, her HDD is locked at 100% usage with monotonous frequency and it makes her angry and frustrated at being locked out of using the PC for even browsing the web for 40 minutes at a time. This is unacceptable

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-03-28T16:40:03+00:00

    I managed to remove the problem by killing the process "Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry" (CompatTelRunner.exe), and also disabling Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser from Task Manager.

    The disk usage dropped from 100% to 12-26%.

    See here for full instructions:

    https://geeksadvice.com/fix-microsoft-compatibility-telemetry-high-cpu-usage/

    Many thanks colgate-girl,

    You're brilliant!  After the WaasMedic went away, I found that these had taken over my hard disk, and the geek advice link you sent has helped me go into the windows controls and turn them off.  My previously overworked hard disk now operates in the 0-20% range most of the time.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-03-02T10:07:00+00:00

    Hi!

    Same problem.

    I killed this process and now it's ok.

    Microsoft updates are an headache...

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