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
    2021-03-22T15:06:02+00:00

    I have the same problem.  Whenever I reboot my computer, everything takes minutes to start up and work.  I have no additional drive of any kind connected, just the one hard drive in my laptop.  Waas keeps the hard drive at 100% for the first 10-15 minutes, then things settle down

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-03-22T15:03:42+00:00

    Sayaurui:- That is part of my daily routine. Check to see if anything arrived shortly after boot & before shutdown both on AM & PM boots. Every so often, have found something has arrived 2-3 hours after boot (not there on actual boot) particularly during PM. There seems to be a secondary WUD in Task scheduler that runs  separately to the main WUD running during AM boot, hence finding new WUD's available outside main run, this was so on the old computer running 8.1.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-03-22T14:13:45+00:00

    I had the same trouble and i fixed it by going to the windows update settings page and I installed all the windows updates there were and got rid of the process. It's a good idea to check that you don't have any update pending there and if you have, go install it, after the update the process should be gone.

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