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
    2021-05-10T06:10:45+00:00

    Waas Medic ran again this morning  as well as yesterday morning - more pronounced compared to yesterdays run, lasted about 8 minutes again, improved halfway through.  Been one other posting since mine yesterday - no notification received once again though still shows me being signed in & subscribed - MS up to something ?

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-05-11T02:15:52+00:00

    Waas did it's normal run on Sunday. Two minutes on one system, 19 minutes on another and at 12 minutes on another I just did an End Task from the Task Manger and it did not come back today. If you monitor the disk activity of Waas after it reads all the files in Windows>Servicing >LCU then Win SxS which is over 10 gigs of files it then starts reading your personal files including in the Documents folder and it even read my FireFox profile. Waas is nothing more than spyware and every time it pops up I'll just do an End Task. I did submit a diagnostics report through the Feedback Hub but I doubt anything will come of it. I was having private messages from the Microsoft employee who posted in this thread but he just started making imaginary excuses for Waas. He has absolutely no clue what's going on and either M$ is clueless or they know exactly what Waas is doing and they have absolutely no plans to stop it from wearing out our hard drives.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-05-11T07:00:57+00:00

    Here is what happens to me:

    • I regularly use "Sleep" (instead of shutdown) when leaving the computer
    • When I come back, I start using the computer, but I observe: (i) WaasMedic eating up a lot of CPU and (ii) after a few minutes it actually SHUTS DOWN THE FREAKING COMPUTER after some random 3 to 20 minutes. It does that almost daily!
    • If I come back to the computer and first kill WaasMedic, everything is working smoothly, and most importantly, IT DOES NOT SHUTDOWN THE COMPUTER!

    Looking forward to WaasMedic not SHUTTING DOWN THE COMPUTER. (that would be so awesome!)

    Thanks for caring and good luck!

    -Domi

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-05-11T07:02:23+00:00

    MS know what the issue is - any normal company would post a message here saying we do not the problem at the moment but are looking into it. There appears to be showing 117,000 views of this thread - should that tell MS something?. MS seems to have a history of ignoring user problems which have been instigated by MS - man up & admit there is a problem at that their end as any normal company would do. This would not help us but at least their acknowledgement would confirm it is not being TOTALLY IGNORED as seems the situation at the moment.  Problem of not receiving notifications seems to have resolved itself this morning with 5 days of back-log postings coming thru'.

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