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
    2021-05-04T02:34:47+00:00

    @MichaelIrons - as you and @MarcHoppe have been providing some really good feedback on here, as you have several systems, I wanted to ask what you gut-feel was about what update caused this.

    I see that 19041.928 is KB5001330, 19041.867 is KB5000802 and 19041.662 is KB4586853.

    All of those contain 64-bit WaasMedic Rollup fixes.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-05-04T02:52:32+00:00

    I WISH I had something like that connected to the computer, but I don't, and haven't for some time. The only thing regularly plugged into a USB drive is the dongle for my wireless mouse.

    Any other ideas?

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-05-04T06:02:18+00:00

    TD47 - Looking for WaaSMedic in system folder & doing a seach, mid December 2020 & mid January, results bring up various WaasMedic folders showing these as latest modified dates which probably we would have received shortly after. Coincidence this is the time people started reporting issues ?

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-05-04T13:53:41+00:00

    I'm looking at KB 4023057 as the possible culprit. It installed on this  system on 2-19-21 and again on 04-04-21. On another system it installed sometime in January as well.  "This update includes files and resources that address issues that affect the update processes in Windows 10 that may prevent important Windows updates from being installed. These improvements help make sure that updates are installed seamlessly on your device"         

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb4023057-update-for-windows-10-update-service-components-fccad0ca-dc10-2e46-9ed1-7e392450fb3a

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