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
    2021-08-16T12:28:32+00:00

    Hello,

    thank you very much for your help.

    I will try that and take it easy.

    An idea could be also just to deaktivate the automatic windows update for some time, lets say 30 day for example

    and see if the 100% disk load disappear.

    Or not?

    Thanks.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-08-16T12:00:22+00:00

    Hello,

    My computer shows on the TaskManager a 100% Disk load and it is extrem slow, so it is not possible to work properly.

    Please, could you tell me, if the problem with this MS WaasMedicAgent is already solved by Microsoft?

    Thank you.

    I have no clue as it doesn't appear so but I have only started to see this myself, or never noticed until now. Which doesn't seem right as this issue apparently Microsoft doesn't care. This issue has been going on since at least 2017 so they are aware of it for sure!

    I usually let my PC run @ 10-15 minutes after startup. Making coffee, doing the Am routine and so on. That's more than ample time for this to do it's thing and calm down.

    I suppose the only time it does this is if I lose my connection to the Internet or get an actual update, other than checking for Virus updates manually throughout the day, which should be automatic also.

    It's frustrating. But doesn't happen to often in my case. Only thing I could suggest for now is to let it run, it doesn't run long (also in my case), get some Coffee or Water, soda, take a break and come back. It should have finished doing it's thing by then. If I find anything about this OTHER than a Download this app BS, I'll post it here, because your PC shouldn't need Third Party programs to remedy this!!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-08-16T10:32:57+00:00

    Hello,

    My computer shows on the TaskManager a 100% Disk load and it is extrem slow, so it is not possible to work properly.

    Please, could you tell me, if the problem with this MS WaasMedicAgent is already solved by Microsoft?

    Thank you.

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