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
    2021-03-10T07:26:28+00:00

    I'm UK based so today (Wednesday) is when I receive Patch Tuesday updates on am boot (7:00) am. All I got from auto update and manual check is Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - NO monthly updates although MS guide says there are cumulative updates. I am still on 2004. Very strange but perhaps relevant ?

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-03-10T03:42:14+00:00

    Ok I responded there. So far all I got with my thread is an "expert" who said there is no solution for the issues in these threads but claims he can help fix mine.

    For the record the WaasMedic issue has cleared up here again at least temporarily. Hopefully the Microsoft Agent will be of help.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-03-09T17:50:56+00:00

    The original post in this thread was over 2 months ago. 779 people have indicated they have this problem, too.

    On March 1, I posted a request in the answers.microsoft.com community participation forum requesting that a Microsoft or other forum technical resource respond to this thread.

    Link is: post in community participation forum

    As of March 9, no luck.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-03-09T00:41:17+00:00

    I started a new thread with "need answer" checked and did get a user response but nothing from Microsoft. I think someone said this thread is not marked as a problem which is why no response. Here's the link to the new thread.

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_10-performance/waasmedicagentexe-high-disk-usage/5e916dd3-f537-42be-be18-9823e1ef1e0d?tm=1615077333324

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