WaasMedic Agent Exe stopping me from working

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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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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.

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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2021-05-22T15:23:49+00:00

Same here, that application is killing my computer.

Windows should be updated so all programs have a limit using resources; right now any program is able to consume all the memory and disk. That's worng

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2021-05-18T06:04:36+00:00

Wmcole got it 100% right. IF this is a 'Repair Tool', does not seem to work very well. If I take my car to the garage for 'Repair', I expect it to be a one-off, don't expect to take it back every week for the same problem - if MS runs it on a regular basis that infers there is a continuous problem that it fails to correct - is this believable?
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2021-05-17T17:12:27+00:00

I thought reporting these issues would be part of the INSIDERS brief, they are more able to report these things as opposed to us poor users. Or do none of the million or INSIDERS not have the problem?. OR is it once again, MS IGNORE the Insider reports as they have done before. You quote numbers of people in this thread reporting this issue, there are also numerous non MS threads reporting same issue - what do we have to do for MS take notice of their CUSTOMERS & USERS.
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2021-05-04T13:53:41+00:00

I'm looking at KB 4023057 as the possible culprit. It installed on this system on 2-19-21 and again on 04-04-21. On another system it installed sometime in January as well. "This update includes files and resources that address issues that affect the update processes in Windows 10 that may prevent important Windows updates from being installed. These improvements help make sure that updates are installed seamlessly on your device"

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb4023057-update-for-windows-10-update-service-components-fccad0ca-dc10-2e46-9ed1-7e392450fb3a
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