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
    2021-06-24T12:23:05+00:00

    Everything works bad after the update, my laptop is unusable HDD with 4GB of RAM and i5. 100% album All time, Xbox Bar, WAAS Medic, Sysmain, Windows Update, etc. etc. I'm new in my work Now I have to work twice as much hours because I spend the day fighting with the team. I had to move tools to my phone to flow better.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-06-24T07:18:17+00:00

    LibreOffice (Free)

    https://www.libreoffice.org/

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-06-24T04:05:45+00:00

    Microsoft is really pushing me over the edge with this monster ironically named a medic. I'ts like lying in agony at a car accident and Godzilla arrives with an ambulance . I have an i7 laptop that costed me a fortune and i can rarely use it without searching why this and that Microsoft rubbish is making it so slow. Next to it sits a 2007 Core 2 Duo Linux laptop humming away without a problem - it's literally more useful to me albeit lacking Microsoft Word. It took me 35 years to switch banks due to the pain involved but eventually the bad service becomes unbearable. I am at a similar position now to take the pain and jump to Apple ironically merely to get captured by Microsoft Office there as well. Please world, come up with an alternative to Microsoft Word I beg of you. Microsoft has become a sweatshop full of monkeys seemingly randomly typing away hoping to come up with Shakespear's work.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-06-22T10:32:13+00:00

    I  am  having  a  similar  problem  waasmedic  disk  usage  keeps  shooting up  to  about 90% rarely  below  30%

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