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
    2021-06-20T11:32:46+00:00

    I know how this is going to sound, however;  I feel MS is using our computers as nodes for some other purpose.  Like all things in this material world our computers are not ours.

    I mean, you buy a movie online, but the vendor admits, you don't really own it; just as one example of what we do nowadays.

    Another resource hog are the AntiViral softwares.  Watch the resource usage from them.  When WaasMedicAgent isn't hogging everything the antivirus apps are.

    Since I do not go to sites I shouldn't I am about to consider turning them off and seeing if MS Defender will protect me just as well.

    Dunno about that just yet, considering it.

    Anyway, I do believe our computers are just nodes for some other purpose by MS, Apple, etc...  Sounds nutty, but who really knows?

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-06-14T06:43:33+00:00

    Someone calculated how much electricity was used to complete a blockchain transaction (and it was A LOT).

    Would someone please calculate what the worldwide cost of Windows Update and the related WaasMedic bug is. The carbon footprint of this crud must be enormous.

    Microsoft should pay for their sloppy attitudes towards the planet.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-06-12T20:16:56+00:00

    This hurt my brain to read. Also, some people do not have the luxury of just buying a new SSD. Especially in today's economy. People should not have to pay to fix a problem that should not even be there- one introduced by a company for no good reason.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-06-02T23:24:58+00:00

    Interesting, how MS is getting bashed for trying to solve a scenario that earlier would have required re-installing the Windows.

    From the high volume of 'same problem' entries, we can identify the pattern.

    1. always after starting the machine.
    2. always after starting the machine after forcefully closing down while a background update was running.

    Understandably MS cannot stop the user from pulling the plug in the middle of whatever, even if it would end up leaving the system in a helluva mess.

    What MS could do - rather than starting up into an unusable state - is making it clear that previous shutdown was irregular, and some repair work is necessary before the machine is available again.

    An honest inconvenience is better than a hidden attempt to fix things, while making it impossible to work, anyway.

    From the multitude of replies it is not possible to know whether

    1. 'always in a system with either SSD or external drive' is true or not.

    Mine certainly is a SSD based one, and today I encountered this hiccup after yesterday shutting down by a lid slam.

    If 3) is true, then MS should be able to recreate and fix the problem without asking us to provide any further diagnostics without compensation.

    ****** Just read Reply #309 (MarcHoppe). Obviously not just SSD. But even ignoring my 3) , I still think a reasonable MS engineer should be able to do something, either to make the process genuinely background, or to inform the user, if the repairs require 100% control.

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