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
    2021-05-02T15:22:17+00:00

    Ctrl-Alt_Del get you the tassk manager. I was able to "End Task" on WaasMedicAgent".

    The computer disk was still at 100% for a few minutes. I would occasionally drop to 75% to 97%. but, still slow.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-05-02T15:35:11+00:00

    Had nothing else to do for half hour, starting looking at other non MS forums - they are all reporting the same issue with WAASMEDIC taking excessive disc usage with no apparent motive (backed up by postings here), this is forced on us by MS- looks as though the monster is out of control - full marks to Microsoft.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-05-02T16:00:44+00:00

    I noticed Waasmedic's high disk usage at the same time an Office update seems to be in progress. Damn both products...
    Updates are nice, but please please please please, let the use CHOOSE when to do them.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-05-02T17:11:59+00:00

    It is all part of designed obsolescence to force purchase of new hardware & software. Every computer I've ever owned has eventually slowed down to a crawl because of the updates. I've never seen a benefit from the updates. I opine that there's a little code in each one that exponentially diminishes performance. That might be why they throw rotten tomatoes at Gates; and, why he doesn't make many public appearances.

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