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
    2021-10-25T06:10:00+00:00

    MarcHoppe :- As of 12th September, my normal 8 minute Sunday run has reduced to between 5 & 32 seconds, these I have missed in task manager, only picked up in WaasMedic Scheduled Tasks History. Up until this date, also used to have a second run during the week which seemed to run a half day later each week, this has completely disappeared now. If MS have actually heeded all our moans, why have they not announced it's been fixed - no doubt some other process is now running as a substitute.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-10-25T01:57:36+00:00

    Probably because they are too busy data-mining all those who updated to Windows 11, something that will NEVER happen on my 3 workstations, two laptops and one Surface.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-10-24T22:39:05+00:00

    Has a miracle occurred ???? I don't want to jinx myself but for the last two Sundays WaaS has hardly run at all. Today it only ran for at the most two minutes on a system that it would run on for over 12 minutes in the past. Was a fix actually delivered on Patch Tuesday? It's too early to tell for sure but at this point it appears the WaaS Medic Agent issue may have been solved even on systems with HDDs.

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