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
    2021-04-12T21:54:29+00:00

    Are we sure this isn't a really good malware program?

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-04-13T06:43:24+00:00

    Just checked WaasMedic in system files - quite a few are notated with creation date being December 2020 & January 2021 which means they were issued a short while after - is this significant as the first posting in this thread was January?. Saw some issues in 2017 & 2018 with same current issue - MS seem to have a habit of repeating previous issues.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-04-13T12:57:46+00:00

    Yes Microsoft Windows IS malware, just not very good ;=)

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-04-13T13:22:08+00:00

    My issue with WaasMedic started around that time as well. I did a google search and came across this thread. On April 11th the last scheduled run for Waas one of my systems which is still on Win 10 20-04 ran it for 11 minutes and 45 seconds at 100% disk activity. On this system which is running Win 10 20H2 it only ran for about a minute or so. This system is a much less powerful system but does have an SSD system drive. Microsoft appears to be content to simply ignore the problem. Perhaps this update Tuesday will bring a fix but I am not holding much faith. The next scheduled run for Waas is April 18th as it is set to run every seven days and the task can not be canceled even by an admin account.

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