WaasMedic Agent Exe stopping me from working

From all the data provided throughout this thread there seem to be indications that:

1. WaasMedicAgent on SSDs checks only a few FILES, not entire directories.
2. For a SYS partion on an HDD, WaasMedicAgent reads EVERY FILE in the SYS volume. So if you are a photogapher / videographer / audiophile that keeps thousands or tens of thousands of media files on you SYS volume, you are going to experience more difficulty than others. QUESTION: WHY IS WAASMEDICAGENT READING MY PERSONAL (NON-OS) FILES AND THIRD PARTY APPLICATION FILES?
3. WaasMedicAgent is NOT a Windows Update Remediation module (as one MS official admitted) and has become the latest place to hide the "Application Experience" tasks and "Connected User Experiences and Telemetry" etc. that most users have learned to disable in trying to slow down MS's assault on system resources.
4. WaasMedicAgent and its spyware "helpers" (like MicrosoftEdgeUpdate, PcaPatchDbTask, etc.) primarily use up HD I/O resource, and not CPU.
5. TO MICROSLOTH THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM - ITS A "FEATURE" - AND THEY COULD CARE LESS ABOUT ITS IMPACT ON HDD USERS! If they can force you to SSDs so that their increased spying and violation of user privacy is less noticeable so much the better!

Sensitive to all the bad publicity over WaasMedic, AND it (the greatly enhanced MS spyware implementation) not really being a problem in Microsloth's eyes, the "solution" was to distribute a vast majority of the new spyware functions among other modules so there will be no one "culprit" you can point to that is not an essential of the OS.

Since about two weeks ago when it became almost impossible to catch WaasMedic running, the bogged down boot-ups have not stopped. But now you may notice the resource hog that stays at the top of the list for Disk I/O for up to an hour - even when you are not engaged in heavy disk I/O user activity - is the PID 4 "System".

Now, Microsloth is going to argue that "System" is the basic OS without which nothing can run and so is necessary. The will NOT speak to all the UNNECESSARY PRIVACY VIOLATING SPYWARE embedded in it. There is no reason it needs to riffle through all "My Documents" or "My Pictures" files at all, especially when I have turned OFF any hint of indexing etc.

Basically the problem (in user's eyes, not Microsloth's) has remained, only the culprit's name has changed - and been spread to myriad other "essential" services.

This finally worked for me and suddenly everything is very fast

If you want to disable it, run regedit, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Policies > Microsoft > Windows > DataCollection. Then create a new 32 bit D-Word value, name it "Allow Telemetry", and set value-data to 0.

Reading something a while back that MS will not be progressing to Windows 11, apparently they are thinking that the evolution will be a pay by monthly subscription instead of a once only licence payment included in purchase price of computer which no doubt we all accept. Hands up anybody who would be prepared to pay for the current standard of service of updating & record of ignoring customers views and issues.