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?

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Settings

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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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  2. Anonymous
    2021-05-05T06:07:09+00:00

    I did try Feedback Hub once but got lost what to do - not user friendly. Why don't MS use feedback from the Insiders. If we are all having issues, do doubt the Insiders are having issues, they will be experienced in using Feedback Hub, would almost be a full time time job with MS. I think the reposting of PaulSey proves MS are just ignoring the issue & hope we go away - if they are not careful, perhaps we will completely go away from MS. Evidently he does not use MS Windows 10 otherwise he would be experiencing the problem as well. MS KNOW the problem - sort it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-05-05T10:01:59+00:00

    Very good value for money (don't think). As someone as posted, why should we have to pay Microsoft for correcting a serious error created by themselves. But COULD they solve this issue anyway, it's been going on for 4 months already, we have already paid for this anyway when purchasing computer which includes the MS Licence. MS not made any headway so far. It appears that legally, they have 'Failed to provide an product or service fit for the purpose' - leaving themselves open there!.

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