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
    2021-09-12T10:35:05+00:00

    None of these links had any useful information about this issue and were almost a decade old and referenced extremely old versions of windows. The solution to delete those folders came from another microsoft feedback post.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-09-12T13:15:24+00:00

    Yes as we've been saying for months M$ decided it would be a good idea to optimize Win10 to run off of SSDs effectively making systems that shipped with Win10 and HDDs obsolete. I don't know if they're in collusion with SSD manufacturers or they just decided to make their OS less efficient on their own. WaaS Medic will still run an your SSD it just won't read all those files. Requiring your system to read those hundreds of thousands of files on an HDD is the way M$ is making it attractive for you to upgrade to an SSD and it worked. Well done M$. But not everyone can shell out the money to upgrade every one of their systems to SSDs. Installing Linux is free and it doesn't spend all day grinding away at your hard drive.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-09-12T13:19:41+00:00

    Yes we've been saying this for months. You can delete the files in the LCU Package for Rollup Fix folders but Windows will just put them back up to three at a time. This is either a serious bug in Win 10 or it's the way M$ is intentionally causing serious system slowdowns in order to get us to buy SSDs. Either way M$ remains silent on the issue and to my knowledge has not responded to even one Feedback Hub report.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-09-12T16:50:28+00:00

    Mark Schroeder:

    Thanks for your post about WaasMedicAgent reading files from prior Windows 10 updates. Some earlier posts in this thread also mentioned issues about it reading old Windows Update files.

    Some months ago, after each Windows 10 update (usually on 2nd week of the month), I started using the Windows Disc Clean utility to delete files listed as "Windows Update Cleanup". The steps are: Run disc clean utility....select Cleanup system files.... checkmark "Windows Update Cleanup" as one category of files for Disc cleanup to purge.

    Since starting to do this every month, I have noticed that the WaasMedicAgent delays have been reduced from half hours and hours, to just a couple of minutes on my system, which has hard disk drive. Not sure purging the Windows Update Cleanup is the cause of the improvement, but I have not had the extremely long periods of system non-response that I used to have when Waas Medic Agent ran.

    On a couple of occasions, Disc Cleanup showed that cleaning up Windows Update Cleanup files would save over 2 GB of disc space. After it ran, the category showed only a couple hundred MB of space left. If WaasMedic is reading those files, that could be one reason it takes so long.

    Note that removing Windows Update Cleanup with Disc Cleanup is not fast. On my HDD system, it may take the utility 10 to 20 minutes to purge those files. But I get to choose the time to run Disc Cleanup, as opposed to WaasMedic popping up when I don't want it to.

    I recommend everyone with this problem use the Disc Clean utility to process "Windows Update Cleanup" files after monthly Windows 10 updates.

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