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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Anonymous

2021-04-05T16:32:40+00:00

I'm going to try manually shutting waasmedic down the next scheduled run on April 11th. I'll see if it runs again on the 12th. If so then it's pointless to shut it down. I'm going to install KB 5000842 on one system before the 11th and see if that fixes the issue but I have my doubts.
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Anonymous

2021-04-05T15:23:05+00:00

Newer tried stopping WASMEDIC if running. Did have an issue on an old Laptop running 8.1 12 months or so ago it was running some schedule maintenance/clean up process just went on & on for over an hour. Thought I would be clever & stop process, worked. Rebooted and same process started up again so could only leave until it completed, touch wood - never happened again - does this happen with WAASMEDIC - if stopped is this likewise, only a temporary delay, starts up again on a reboot ?
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Anonymous

2021-04-05T14:02:42+00:00

I did not notice waasmedic running until early this year and that's when I came here and found many other people are having the same issue. I normally keep a pretty close eye on disk activity. Has anyone applied Optional Update KB 5000842 yet ? I have not and will wait for Second Tuesday roll out to see what happens. So far this morning on two different systems waasmedic has not run so this is not a system specific issue this is something either planned by M$ or they are simply unable to fix the problem they caused starting early this year.
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2021-04-05T03:28:32+00:00

Update - just checked back - scheduled run should have been on 14th March - actually run from my records on 12th March - day after of installing March WUD's which I should have received on 10th but did not come thru' that day, no error shown, manual runs not picking up anything. Actual updates arrived & auto installed on AM boot of 11th. This instance was the worst I have seen but effect disappeared within 10 minutes of pressing ON button to boot but this was PM,
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