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
    2021-08-05T03:05:57+00:00

    Precisely. Wassmedic is not the only one. I get high disk usage, I kill the processes that are making a high disk usage. Then I look at Task Manager and the high disk usage is "system". No explanation. MicroStupid will just continue to read and write to and from the disk, without notifying anyone. Can you find out what is being written or read? No. Will MicroStupid ever reply to this problem? No. I get interrupted in the middle of my live streaming, only to find that even though I disabled everything, "system" is writing and reading from the disk and making my game lag. I could not even get the game to save. I had to close OBS and start all over. MicroStupid is performing an actual breaking and entering or home invasion. Who knows what information they are getting and who they give it to. This forum is not very helpful. Feedback Hub is impossible to get to unless you disable wassmedic and other programs, then it would find nothing, cause I disabled it. Worthless advice.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-08-05T03:18:11+00:00

    The only way to get my system to respond is to stop all these processes. As soon as you do that the information on the high disk usage is no longer there. This is an insult to anyone with intelligence and is a non-answer. Pure rhetoric.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-08-08T13:38:31+00:00

    Get rid of Windows? LOL. I have the same question. Did you get a reply, other than "reproduce" the problem.

    We can't "reproduce" the problem. The problem suddenly happens and bottlenecks your computer. Nothing new was downloaded etc. It simply presents itself!

    What is it, and how do we get rid of it is the question!

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-08-08T14:17:40+00:00

    Seems the only way is to get rid of Windows OS - nothing else seems to solve issue

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