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
    2021-05-16T13:22:05+00:00

    5/16/2021; waasmedic agent has taken over my laptop HP, hard drive 3% CPU but 98% hard drive.  Lasted for 8 mintues

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-05-16T01:52:15+00:00

    I have tried to do as requested. However, I do not know how to make a "'Recreate my Problem' recording ", and after submitting, I did not see a URL to quote here.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-05-13T07:49:57+00:00

    Same here - have an external drive connected for manual backups & File History, when I have WaasMedic running, external drive not taking any write/read resources, made no difference if switched off. Don't know if this significant - found some files waasmedicagent app & dlls notated as modified 29th April in Windows System - delivered with this May WUD's ?

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-05-12T19:23:11+00:00

    I'm suspicious of something similar, this problem only started for me after I configured Amazon Photos to backup images I have store on a network addressable drive.

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