WaasMedic Agent Exe stopping me from working

>>Microsoft needs to stop trying to make things easy and cool for the slow learners and just give us a working OS. I'm going to complain to my state AG office about anti-trust and fraud issues.<<

You missed it a little on those points. Since Windows XP, Microsoft has been slowly adding spyware and market-ware (the former to complement and help further develop the latter) to the OS. There are several goals from different departments involved: ultimate goal is pay-per-use (or pay-by-volume-use) for various "features" of the OS and MS apps. That is why they have ignored the EU anti-trust rulings regarding Internet Explorer, creating a new browser now fully integrated into the OS so that you cannot uninstall it and MUST use it if you use the OS; Edge is now the "feature" that executes "Search" within the OS as well as serving as a web browser - big middle finger to the EU. MS is also trying to integrate what used to be the Office suite into the OS in such a way that you MUST login to and remain connected to MS cloud services (subject to their "data analysis" - i.e. profiling - software) in order to do the most basic application work you want an OS to support. The entire effort is to do away with the distinction between OS and application so that they can force their monopolistic abuse on every aspect of your digital life - indeed on your organic day-to-day life - to maximize access and control of your financial resources.

Second, your AG has no interest in anti-trust issues against MS because he is likely a political hack under the influence of Big Money politics which MS demonstrated in the 90's, they can use to beat back attempts at anti-trust or monopolistic unfair business practice litigation even from nation-states let alone an individual state, province or district.

The real legal exposure MS has is the negligence exposed the past year over their handling of known security issues within the OS. They refused to respond to known threats resulting in billions of dollars of loss to ransomware attacks around the world. There are likely hospital deaths that can be attributed to systems being locked up by ransomware attacks as well. So, only if "Enterprise" users band together to file class action law suites to recover their losses due to the attacks that could have been avoided had MS responded to the security community who identified the vulnerabilities in a timely fashion long before they were utilized by hackers. The evidence quite clearly exists (see previous post re: MS "Culpable Negligence" assertion by Steve Gibson on YouTube). If enough companies / organizations / government agencies signed onto the suites, MS would likely end up settling for billions of dollars - painful enough to AT LEAST make them respond to the independent security community's vulnerability / fix reports that get handed to MS on a regular basis. In truth, they should have their own internal yet independent "hacker attack" department that mimics the efforts of, and works closely with the security community on "preventative" security maintenance of the OS. But, since they get FREE security stress testing servic3es and often suggested coding fixes from outside sources - why bother! And even then, why bother FIXING anything when you can blame the hackers for the losses, and keep squeezing more out of customers with monopolistic pressure to make users suck harder and longer on the Microsoft teat.

Regarding Office and Excel, there are plenty of open source apps that will run your files. I use open office.

I put off switching to Win 10 because I just didn't like the look of it. Switched over last month because there were some games I was interested in that wouldn't run on 7. What a disaster. Before, I had 51 processes running, now there's 122. My machine gradually gets slower until I have to restart, which is 2 or 3 times a day. I noticed the process that this thread is about for the first time today, so thought I'd see what it was. I've killed every useless process and app that I can find, but 10 is still a giant step backwards from 7. Microsoft needs to stop trying to make things easy and cool for the slow learners and just give us a working OS. I'm going to complain to my state AG office about anti-trust and fraud issues. Tired of this nonsense.

I watched episode 832 of Security Now titled "Microsoft’s Culpable Negligence" where Steve Gibson just rips Microsoft to pieces for their failure to react to reported security issues. He points out why M$ doesn't care any longer because they have $130 Billion dollars of cash on hand and know they have a monopoly on the Enterprise market. They simply do not care any longer. M$ knows they won't lose any enterprise customers so why bother spending one penny fixing anything. This explains perfectly why the WaaS Medic issue has not been fixed and will never be fixed. Watch the video from the one hour fifteen minute mark:

https://youtu.be/KgOKt_FYrOg?t=4520