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
    2021-08-16T12:51:39+00:00

    I'm not sure. As I have never done this. But it may work. I don't see any reason it wouldn't!

    Seeing how this is an automated process, it should stop this from running in the background.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-08-16T13:22:08+00:00

    WaaSMedic Agent.exe is a scheduled task set to run every Sunday or first boot after. You can find it in the Task Scheduler. Here on one system it also tries to run on Monday as well. You can just end task from the Task Manager and there is a way to turn it off with a Registry Hack but Windows will just turn it back on. Yesterday on my most powerful system it ran for over 11 minutes at or near 100% disk usage. You can monitor what WaaS is doing by opening the resource manager to the Disk tab.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-08-16T13:52:03+00:00

    On July 7th received an update from MS in their attempt to resolve the issue with PrintNightmare. Caused computer to Blue screen a couple of times, also, for some reason, reinstalled FlashPlayer which MS removed in February. Removed their update which apparently caused various users reporting Blue Screen, unable to print, unable to gain internet access etc. Had to do a system restore to remove Flash then halted Updates, eventually turned on again on 20th. During this time WaasMedic was still running every Sunday on schedule plus a second run later in the week. On Sunday 18th it ran for 7 seconds, the Monday, ran for my normal 6 - 8 minutes, first half of this unable to do anything. So, in my case switching off WUDs did not stop WassMedic running.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-08-16T17:22:06+00:00

    Thank you for your help.

    I will see during this week if in my case switching off WUDs also do not stop WassMedicAgent running,

    if yes it does it would be very bad, because it is something that it should not be expected.

    Thanks.

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