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
    2021-04-22T03:29:43+00:00

    Waasmedic has always been scheduled to run in Windows 10. In the Task Scheduler it's set to run next here on April 25th and every seven days. The problem is that earlier this year people started to experience extra long run times for Waas at high disk usage and for some people it runs more often than the seven day cycle. I noticed it making my laptop unusable months ago and did a google search. That's when I found this thread and saw that others are having the same issue. Some worse than others. On this system Waas only runs for a minute or so. On another system it ran for eleven and a half minutes at 100% disk. Something happened to Windows some time at the beginning of this year and you can see that is when this thread was started. Something is wrong with Windows and Microsoft will have to fix it but as we can see here they are completely ignoring the issue. I've been using Linux more and more as Windows has become a pig of an operating system more concerned about mining our data than providing a solid user experience.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-04-22T06:47:29+00:00

    Totally agree with MarcHoppe. Also wish to stress that altering anything in the Registry is only for experienced computer technicians, one wrong letter, one extra space could well stop WassMedic running, it may also stop the computer running. There are a few postings about altering the Registry, none seem to mention the most critical part of doing this - that being BACK UP THE REGISTRY first so if anything goes awry, there is a chance to recover.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-04-22T12:41:09+00:00

    Yes, this is related to windows updates. 

    Answer:  go to your search bar and type in "updates" / go to windows updates settings / select Pause Updates for 7 days/  then change your active hours to 1 hour before you expect to use your computer every day and 1 hour after you expect to be finished for the day.  

    (desktop users only ) 

    Next in power settings select sleep never.

    Next just don't ever power down your computer and it should update at off hours time when you are not using the computer.

    I know this is not a perfect fix but it will let you get working again. 

    Cheers

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