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?

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Settings

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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
    2021-05-04T22:53:20+00:00

    Did so yesterday without signing in, so I don't have any idea where it went (URL).  Had to use "other" since "Windows update" is not listed as a problem area.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-05-04T14:39:12+00:00

    MaecHoppe.  I'm UK based & still on 2004 so normal patch Tuesday I pick up next day first thing in morning so assume mid period releases assume would also be likewise. This year KB4023057 has come thru' on 3 occasions - 22nd January, 20th February & 29th April these showing in update history. Most WUD's seem to be detailed as applying to both 2004 & 20H2 so would expect us to read the same dates. MS 'This update includes reliability improvements to Windows Update Service components in Windows 10' don't seem to be working but all MS Security Update Guide KBs are coming through OK (history shows they are OK & installed). Somewhere along the line MS has fed us a dud so is this why they feel the need to issue KB4023057 3 times in 4 months, normally you would say 3rd time lucky but they can't even get that right.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-05-04T06:02:18+00:00

    TD47 - Looking for WaaSMedic in system folder & doing a seach, mid December 2020 & mid January, results bring up various WaasMedic folders showing these as latest modified dates which probably we would have received shortly after. Coincidence this is the time people started reporting issues ?

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-05-04T02:52:32+00:00

    I WISH I had something like that connected to the computer, but I don't, and haven't for some time. The only thing regularly plugged into a USB drive is the dongle for my wireless mouse.

    Any other ideas?

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