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
    2021-05-09T23:22:27+00:00

    May 9, 2021. system.exe, WaasMedic Agent exe, and Windows Defender alternate 100% of Disk Usage for roughly 40 minutes after startup, consistently. I checked my update history to see if it matched what everyone else was seeing, seems like my computer has done a micro-update of Windows Defender every single time I’ve turned my computer on since at least March 17.

    Is there a way for it to just... not...? I built this computer myself only a year ago and would like to be able to use it without having to plan startup an hour out.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-05-09T14:52:16+00:00

    Should have mentioned this morning: Received no new notifications since 5th April, only 3 postings actually in this thread. I normally open this web page to double check & do postings, this morning noticed top right said 'Sign In', clicked and option showing was 'Sign 'Out'. This was there each time opened webpage on Edge & Firefox. Instead of doing that, clicked on 'Subscribe', this requested to subscribe, but of course already subscribed. Clicking on 'Subscribe' option also brought up my name & replaced the 'Sign In' requests. Same thing happened numerous times. Tried the old Windows 8 computer on which never used to access this thread. Opened in Chrome, 'Sign In' required, likewise dropdown, signed in, selected 'Subscribe', both settings held on various of this web page openings.

    Went back to this computer, same as above, clicked 'Sign Out' then 'Sign In' became available, did that & clicked 'Subscribe', both in Edge & FF, still appear to be working as they should and are holding the settings so all following web page openg shows me as being signed in & subscribed. Another Microsoft 'GLITCH' ?

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-05-09T13:25:23+00:00

    TF_950 - This seems to be an inherent problem with computers running Windows 10 - new Windows computer would probably have same issue, seems to affect any make, version number, installed apps, configuration etc. First reported January this year - no fix in sight. 100% a Microsoft issue. Theory is it should only run on a scheduled basis on a Sunday or failing a non boot that day, on next boot. Also seems to run a day or two after any MS update being installed.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-05-09T07:44:32+00:00

    WaasMedic ran this morning as scheduled. Very little impact in performance - duration 8 minutes as seems normal for me.. Did also notice, am boot for WUD running not happened automatically, ran when opening Update & security - been a bit random in running this week, up to 3 times a day automatically

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