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
    2021-05-02T14:03:26+00:00

    Ok I've booted two computers so far today on "WaasDay". On one it ran for 7 minutes at 100% disk. On this system it only ran for about 2 minutes but this system has an SSD. Waas spent more time reading from the disk than writing. You can't fix Windows problems by only reading files. I did notice that Waas was reading personal files from the D: drive that have nothing to do with Windows. There is no reason a "service" that is supposed to be fixing Windows update problems needs to read from the non-system drive and access files that have nothing to do with Windows. So it appears that WaasMedic is spyware and Windows is a virus. Now I've got to boot three more systems. WaasDay has become a real source of frustration here.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-05-02T12:15:49+00:00

    Barry StephenNieuport. You mention in your post, searching in Explorer. It worked OK until a couple of years ago when MS updated the way it works which appeared to be taking a number of steps backwards. There were various numerous threads where a large number of users were totally unable to search at all after the update, those like me could still search, pre update you could set your criteria prior to searching, now you have to do a search on anything before the criteria selection is available. This now contains a lot less pre-defined criteria choices than before. According to MS, this was what people wanted  - oh really. I think this example shows the contempt MS show towards us users, apparently the Insiders tested the pre-release and reported back that is not work properly - don't release until issues are solved - what did MS do - they released it and it definitely had problems. Why get the Insiders to test so as to avoid issues and then totally ignore their findings - here again the basis of this thread and others out there is being totally ignored by MS - I bet if the developers had to actually use this OS in the real world instead of  just theory, things would probably improve considerably.

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