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
    2021-04-04T20:06:49+00:00

    Follow the money. Are you paying anything more for upgrades to the OS?

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-03-28T14:03:20+00:00

    I managed to remove the problem by killing the process "Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry" (CompatTelRunner.exe), and also disabling Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser from Task Manager.

    The disk usage dropped from 100% to 12-26%.

    See here for full instructions:

    https://geeksadvice.com/fix-microsoft-compatibility-telemetry-high-cpu-usage/

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-03-28T11:55:37+00:00

    I have WaasAgent using 100% of disk space per Task Manager, but no external drive plugged in.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-03-26T15:19:19+00:00

    Hi!

    Just to let everyone know that for me this has gone away. I decided not to fight it and go with the flow.  I used taskmaster to shut down other things, but did not shut down Waas.  I rebooted and turned everything else off and did not load anything (except I did check drivers and did 20 driver updates) .... and I just let Waas do its 100% disk thing(s).   I shut down and rebooted three times to let that happen.  On the third reboot, it vanished!  Was nowhere to be seen.  Now I've rebooted another five times over the last couple of days, and it has not come back.  
    Hope it is as easy as this for everyone else!

    Cheers,

    JP

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