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
    2021-07-04T12:16:13+00:00

    Hi, same issue here, barely using my laptop, "nettfix" and some google search, but it is really struggling...

    Hopeless fight, very frustrating.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-07-04T11:56:38+00:00

    It seems that even now AFTER ALL THIS TIME Microsoft has FAILED to respond in some or any way whatsoever!!

    One would think or at least expect them to be a little bit concerned; but it seems that all they are transmitting to people on this very long ongoing thread is nothing but TOTAL IGNORANCE and a complete disregarded to their Duty of Care towards many people.

    Reading through most of the comments I am of he opinion (and would like to believe) that Microsoft are checking everything they can on peoples Computers before releasing their Windows 11. But without a few lines from them we can only guess and hope that some awful 'Hickey' is not doing a 'Nasty' on our machines.

    C'mon Microsoft - Do Something...... after all it is your 'Independence day' I believe.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-06-24T07:18:17+00:00

    LibreOffice (Free)

    https://www.libreoffice.org/

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-06-22T01:46:07+00:00

    According to someone who seems to know what he's talking about the Bug Report ID for the WaaS issue is #31929380. So at least there is some acknowledgment that it's a bug. Today the hard drive on one of my systems failed probably due to the constant abuse it gets from WaaS Medic and Windows in general. I've had to do a Registry Hack to protect my other systems from WaaS damaging them as well. Maybe in Windows 11 there will be some relief.

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