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
    2021-06-03T08:21:52+00:00
    1. WaasMedic is in Task Scheduler - default is every Sunday at 3:00 or after so if you boot at 6:00 am it will run. If you boot mid week instead of Sunday it will run because it is overdue.
    2. Have seen no postings saying people have turned off power during WUDs updating. MS used to advise of incorrect shutdown such as switching off power, now they don't but it cures itself during the next boot.
    3. Happens with SSD or HD - the process of WaasMedic seems to be 'Read Only', advantage of SSD is that any read/write activity is a lot quicker due to the fact it does not read or write to a moving disk - it is Solid State. The fact there never seems to be any Write activity when WaasMedic runs infers to me it is actually not repairing anything. Don't suppose a lid slam would help but if it is updating it should warn you that it is updating. Here again it would sort itself out next boot.

    If anybody at MS is using a user issue Windows 10 computer they will have the problem , likewise the million or so voluntary Insiders will have the same problem so MS definitely know the problem. After a lot of various update problems a couple of years ago, MS assured us there would be a lot more testing prior to public release - are they not doing the testing or are they ignoring Insiders feedback that things do not work properly as has happened on more than a couple of occasions since their statement.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-05-31T15:57:18+00:00

    My feedback hub doesn't work. I've tried using it from my CPU and it will not send anything out. I have no idea what is going on with my CPU. Lost my foster son last year and he advised me on my computers. Now with my husband going through his situation, he had a stroke on Christmas Eve, still needs another brain surgery and this CPU is not cooperating with me for me to do the simplest of tasks.

    I'm about to have a meltdown. Covid is killing my life. I lost way too many friends and family last year. 12 passed and my husband almost left me. 3 were my foster sons. One a foster brother. Horrible year. I just need this computer to work. Sorry for taking it out of you people. I just need my computer back to normal again.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-05-30T06:12:17+00:00

    Standard (for me) 8-9 minutes run this morning. Yesterday, WUD shown as automatically checking 4 times during day for any WUD's, last shortly after evening boot. Did not run this morning as boot less than 12 hours from last, manual check brought up Net. framework update so installed. Opened EDGE. notification to change settings to MS recommended, clicked 'No' but then did not open at my Home page so evidently MS provisional reset anyway to THEIR way. Reboot sorted - back to MY settings. Another example of MS BIG, BIG, BIG BROTHER syndrome, YOU WILL DO IT OUR WAY. Object to MS telling me how to live my life along with stealing MY data & failing to sort and lack of any update to this problem over WaasMedic, confirmation I think that this is all a MS designed evil.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-05-29T14:25:36+00:00

    According to MS, it repairs the updating process, why it needs repairing continuously for the last 5 months seems a bit unbelievable. General consensus of opinion is that it is another MS scheme to STEAL your private data etc on our computers, otherwise why have MS not sorted it, (unless they know what it is & they have instigated it)

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