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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  1. Anonymous
    2021-06-21T21:20:07+00:00

    Here is my posted feedback.

    https://aka.ms/AAcoru4

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-06-21T20:18:55+00:00

    Thank you, Bartosz.

    I see your feedback Hub entry, I have added it to the list.

    Paul...

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-06-21T20:18:44+00:00

    mrlc,

    Screenshots of Task Manager and Event viewer will not assist in diagnosing the issue. We need the diagnostic information collected by the Feedback Hub app.

    As for the description, you do not need to be so lengthy that you run out of characters.

    Paul...

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-06-21T20:01:14+00:00

    This is for PaulSey.  I tried the feedback hub but I ran out of characters to soon to describe the problem so I created an email with good screen shots that I believe explains the problem and maybe can get to a solution but I need someone to send it to.  My screen shots include Task Manager during the problem and the Event Viewer after. If you give me your email I can send it to you and you can forward it or please give me the email of a Microsoft Engineer that I can work with to solve the problem.

    I will wait for a response,

    Thanks.

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