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
    2021-04-17T15:52:26+00:00

    HI,

    had the same problem.  Went into task Mgr and deleted the process, and usage went back to normal.  Would LOVE to know what does this app do!??

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-04-16T19:32:39+00:00

    How did you fix it?
    According to the resource manager, WaasMedic has over 140 processes running on my laptop's hard drive!

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-04-15T13:20:01+00:00

    All fixed for me now.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-04-15T10:22:27+00:00

    Hello,

    I have the same issue as waasmedic usage becomes more and more frequent over time (didn't seem to have it with 1903, then sometimes with 1909 and now it's worse with 20H2). The troublshooter shows that there is a problem with it, but even after saying it was solved i relaunched it and it showed the same thing... that means that waasmedic agent exe is purelly broken.

    Regards,

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