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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  2. Anonymous
    2021-10-26T20:22:46+00:00

    I decided to check recent updates in light of a comment on here that the problem went away on 12th October. Sure enough an update on that day meddled with the files.

    We can probably conclude it indeed took from 21 January until 12 October to fix this MAJOR issue.

    4006 people with the same question. 524 replies. Much unnecessary lost productivity due to this denial of service malware OS and MS are to blame. Class action lawsuit territory?

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-10-26T23:38:51+00:00

    Microsoft just earned $20 Billion in a single quarter. They can afford to hire every Lawyer on the planet so the chance of suing them over any issue and winning is slim to none. I'm just glad WaaS no longer grinds away at my hard drive for over twelve minutes at least once a week and often more. The fix was better late than never I guess.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-10-30T06:39:00+00:00

    Just digressing a bit - this morning icon in system tray to the effect I am now ready to update to Windows 11. Checked in settings/Updates - 'Update to 11 Now' or 'Not Now' - selected not now option - give a year or two to prove it works. MS apparently trying hard to force us to update to 11. Following 'Not Now', it checked for updates, couple found, one of which was 'Health Check'.

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