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?

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Settings

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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
    2021-06-13T23:16:45+00:00

    According to my testing here there is a direct relation between SSD and HDD WaaS run times. The WaaS issue occurs on all five of my Win 10 computers and they are all different in terms of what software is loaded on them. Some have third party AV software some just run Windows Defender etc. There does not appear to be any correlation to what software is loaded on the system and the WaaS run times. So far the only major difference has been between the systems with a HDD and the system with an SSD. The exact same files that get read during the weekly WaaS run such as the files in Windows>Servicing>LCU>Package for Rollup Fix and Windows>WinSxS are present on all systems. They get scanned every Sunday on the systems with HDDs and they do not get scanned on the system with an SSD. Whether that's a bug or designed behavior I can't say and M$ isn't saying a thing.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-06-13T23:06:30+00:00

    I've only seen system degradation on my systems with a HDD. My older laptop being the most affected with WaaS run times of up to 20 minutes. That's one of the systems I've done the reg hack on to turn off WaaS and disabled the services "SysMain" and "Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Properties" and it's running so much better now. Whether those actions are going to have some negative impact going forward I can't say yet but so far so good.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-06-13T21:47:24+00:00

    I'm wondering businesses have identified and resolved these issues. I can't imagine any business not resolving a 45 minute login process for their team members. There have to be answers, but I agree, MicroSoft should lead the analysis and provide recommended solutions transparently to all it's users.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-06-13T21:17:43+00:00

    I am not sure about the significance of the apparent HDD vs SSD difference. It can be just an indication of what precisely is installed that needs some attention.

    For example, I never noticed this phenomenon until I started experimenting with Docker Containers, some others have mentioned other products in relation to the nasty behaviour.

    But all that aside... Wouldn't it be nice if Microsoft themselves came back with an explanation, rather than us users working on this?

    It is a confidence boost when the vendor shows that they know what they are doing.

    Very low score to Microsoft in this case.

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