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
    2021-04-27T05:53:03+00:00

    WaasMedic is supposed to solve problems with Windows Updates. Some people seem to be dismissing this as a necessary process. The point is if it finds and fixes problems, why does it need to run again to find & fix problems, this either means it is NOT fixing OR MS are continuing to issue either defective updates or the update process itself is faulty. This is NOT acceptable - yes, sometimes, we all have short term high disc usage but we know what is causing it because we are running something like streaming etc but this is totally under the user control, not something that is induced by an operating system that is not operating correctly.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-04-27T18:07:09+00:00

    I like talking with people with the same problem, But I made some bad choices of words, I never thought the process was necessary, I just over look what I type and I see I didn't add that Microsoft see it as a necessary process, that why there not going to add a stop button to it. They think WaaSMedic will be over in no time, and that the process won't do anything to the OS (meaning destructive or something bad, you know what I mean).

    My bad Again. Yes I do understand it but, it seems I can't get the right choices of words out my head. As before I said "essential" and I said "necessary" I couldn't think of a word that comes close to needed and not needed. It seems I won't be a help to this "I forgot the word for this talk" Thread. I keep reading like allows I only respond if a mistake is made, if I found a solution (Most likely not happening), or if some needs me for something. Intel then I hope a fix can be found, 

    And again I feel like I said something that someone didn't like, idk if I did, but I hope everyone is doing well and peace. 

    edit: I hope you didn't take "that why there not going to add a stop button to it" the wrong way, I'm not going to explain why I put this here (I didn't know what to say that why I put it there), but I meant something close to, change.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-04-28T23:23:20+00:00

    Microsloth wants to sell the idea that WaasMedic is all about insuring the integrity of Windows Update.  This appears to be a bald-faced lie.

    WaasMedic just stopped running, 4 hours after initial boot-up when it apparently installed "KB4023057: Update for Windows 10 Update Service components".  But here is the problem: It was bogging down my email (Thunderbird) and browser (Firefox) making them "click-go-get-coffee-while-waiting-for-response" operations.  In Resource Monitor, Disk tab, Disk Activity pane there were several hundred lines of WaasMedic entries listing almost exclusively non-Microsloth, non-Windows OS files being read from / written to.   The files ranged from applications like Rosetta Stone to Thunderbird and Firefox an numerous other applications I have installed.  Many were in "Program Data" but it was not limited to that directory.   It was also accessing cache files for some programs and even a directory called "deleted Apps".

    This strengthens my opinion that WassMedic is being used to enforce removal of non-Microsloth applications they don't want you to run whether you want to or not, and whether they are actually compatible with Windows or not.  (e.g. Flash, removal of which now prevents me from having full use of the scanner function of my older AOI printer).

    So Microsloth is not being honest when they maintain the point of WaasMedic is to fix / insure the integrity of Windows Updates.  If that were the case, they would have no need to access hundreds of files that belong to third-party applications, bogging down those applications in the process.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-04-29T07:35:25+00:00

    Got KB4023057 this morning, came in as downloaded so HAD to install - no restart required but did one anyway. See what develops next. This year, had same KB on January 22nd, February 20th & now 29th April - what happened in March - no issue that month - MS slipping. Previous issues not knowingly created issues but who knows with Microsoft. Microsoft appear to want to control your computer, you and anybody running Windows. Also no doubt collect info when you go to toilet, pick your nose etc - is is not time for MS let us use OUR computer as we wish.

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