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
    2021-04-10T20:43:36+00:00

    I have learned WaasMedic Agent.exe is scheduled to run every seven days and is scheduled to run tomorrow April 11th. Everybody check to see if it runs and then take note of how long it runs. Also check to see how much disk activity it uses.  If its purpose is to fix issues with Windows updates then it shouldn't need to run for a long time every week unless Microsoft is breaking Windows every week. Tuesday is patch Tuesday so maybe we'll get a fix but I doubt it since M$ doesn't even seem to care that their operating system makes some computer unable to operate.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-04-10T21:04:43+00:00

    "scheduled to run every seven days" ?

    It runs at EVERY BOOT !

    I even tried rebooting AFTER it had stopped running (after over an hour) and it immediately started running again for at least an hour!

    Please Microsoft, make my computer usable again !

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-04-11T08:27:32+00:00

    WaasMedic ran this morning as scheduled Task Scheduler. 'Create Task' to 'Task Completed' 3 seconds so went un-noticed. Week ago same task took 7 seconds. Seems as main problem happens day & half from installing a WUD, happened after March updates & few days ago after Display Adaptor update. Does these mean Microsoft in effect acknowledge there is an issue with updates so WaasMedic becomes part of WUD's and is programmed to run shortly after to sort out any update issues?. To me, evident they KNOW there is an issue - why don't they SORT it instead of applying a band-aid each time.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-04-11T15:20:48+00:00

    Aren't there risks to disabling waasmedic?  I'm assuming it performs a necessary function, but I could be wrong.

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