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?

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Settings

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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
    2021-05-08T12:44:56+00:00

    For those affected badly by Remediation and WaasMedic running for a long time and slowing your machine, as a TEMPORARY workaround until they fix it, try renamimg sedlauncher.exe to sedlauncher.exe.BAK (so it is obvious what the original name is).

    To do this, you will need to run file explorer as ADMIN (right click on the desktop icon, choose "run as administrator"). NOTE: sedlauncher.exe is not contained in the Windows root. Instead, it resides under C:\Program Files\rempl  

    For those familiar with admin CMD line, you can use the REN command of course.

    If you get any unexpected errors or problems, then rename it back to the original name.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-05-05T10:01:59+00:00

    Very good value for money (don't think). As someone as posted, why should we have to pay Microsoft for correcting a serious error created by themselves. But COULD they solve this issue anyway, it's been going on for 4 months already, we have already paid for this anyway when purchasing computer which includes the MS Licence. MS not made any headway so far. It appears that legally, they have 'Failed to provide an product or service fit for the purpose' - leaving themselves open there!.

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