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
    2021-07-02T22:53:19+00:00

    I'm afraid there will be no solution. I think it's just part of Microsoft's "planned obsolescence" program to go along with Window 11's scheme not to work on any old computers no matter how powerful they are. They're trying to get us to buy SSD's since they have programmed Win 10 to take advantage of their increased speed. That's why those of us with HDD's have to suffer the WaaS Medic virus once or twice a week or more. With Windows 10's end of support in 2025 there will be tons of very useful computers that will no longer be safe without the security updates and can't run Win 11. But every one of those computers WILL run Linux so Windows 11 is the best thing to ever happen to Linux. I own nine computers and only one of them will qualify for the Win 11 update but they'll ALL be running a Linux Distro by 2025 if not much sooner. Not one penny more Microsoft Not...One...Penny...More and that goes for you too Dell or HP or any of the other pre-built PC vendors in business today. If I absolutely have to buy a new system to run my music production software it will be a Mac.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-06-24T04:05:45+00:00

    Microsoft is really pushing me over the edge with this monster ironically named a medic. I'ts like lying in agony at a car accident and Godzilla arrives with an ambulance . I have an i7 laptop that costed me a fortune and i can rarely use it without searching why this and that Microsoft rubbish is making it so slow. Next to it sits a 2007 Core 2 Duo Linux laptop humming away without a problem - it's literally more useful to me albeit lacking Microsoft Word. It took me 35 years to switch banks due to the pain involved but eventually the bad service becomes unbearable. I am at a similar position now to take the pain and jump to Apple ironically merely to get captured by Microsoft Office there as well. Please world, come up with an alternative to Microsoft Word I beg of you. Microsoft has become a sweatshop full of monkeys seemingly randomly typing away hoping to come up with Shakespear's work.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-06-22T06:05:52+00:00

    Many people are reporting submitting to Feed Back Hub, disappointing that MS are not reciprocating by providing feedback to this thread. Why can't Paul Sey of MS let us know what is happening by posting an update. Is MS actually working on it, what is the progress, anticipated fix time etc?, Surely this is a simple matter of common courtesy, reassurance from them that they are working on the issue will reinstate a little bit of confidence in MS.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-06-20T11:08:54+00:00

    News today about MS soon to go up to Windows 11. All becomes clear now what his all about, MS will force us to upgrade, various musings whether it will be a subscription service or not. If it is, who would pay for an operating system that, no doubt, would be just as bad or worse than we already have, just this thread says it all. I think many of us will definitely think of using a different OS other than MS next time round, whatever it is, cannot be any worse than we have been lumbered with now. Looks like MS in first stage of committing suicide.

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