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
    2021-05-09T13:25:23+00:00

    TF_950 - This seems to be an inherent problem with computers running Windows 10 - new Windows computer would probably have same issue, seems to affect any make, version number, installed apps, configuration etc. First reported January this year - no fix in sight. 100% a Microsoft issue. Theory is it should only run on a scheduled basis on a Sunday or failing a non boot that day, on next boot. Also seems to run a day or two after any MS update being installed.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-05-09T07:44:32+00:00

    WaasMedic ran this morning as scheduled. Very little impact in performance - duration 8 minutes as seems normal for me.. Did also notice, am boot for WUD running not happened automatically, ran when opening Update & security - been a bit random in running this week, up to 3 times a day automatically

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-05-09T03:27:24+00:00

    I have the same issue. no external disk. i start the laptop and without running anything the disk usage is at 100%! this was not the case till a couple of months ago. it started recently. i can't do anything. this is nonsense. microsoft must fix this issue. i am looking through the comments here. many are having the same problem and not a response from MS! FIX the problem. 

    Btw how do you know waasmdic is the problem. i stopped this service and still my disk usage is at 100%. i am not convinced this is the problem. I see wsappx service come up to the top on the task manager a lot. here is an article on why this could be the issue and how to fix it. https://www.diskgenius.com/how-to/wsappx.php

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-05-08T22:09:36+00:00

    WaasMedic Agent requires too much disk space, and thus too much time, on my old computer right after booting up. This makes my old computer abruptly obsolete because the resulting wait time is unacceptable. So I need to buy a new computer all of a sudden--a nice net outcome indeed for Monopolysoft.

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