What is Windows Update Medic Service (WaaSMedicSVC.exe)?

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What is the Windows Update Medic Service (WaaSMedicSVC.exe) in Windows 11/10? Why do you become Access is Denied message when you try to disable it? How can you disable Windows Update Medic Service? This post tries to respond these questions.

What is Windows Update Medic Service (WaaSMedicSVC.exe)

The Windows Update Medic Service is a new Windows Service introduced in Windows x. This Service has been introduced to repair Windows Update components from harm so that the reckoner can proceed to receive updates.

Windows Update Medic Service (WaaSMedicSVC) enables remediation and protection of Windows Update components. This ways that fifty-fifty if you disable Windows Update related Services, this service will at some signal in time re-enable them.

SIH client in Windows 11/10

Windows 11/ten schedules a chore in the Task Scheduler. This daily task launches the SIH client to observe and fix organization components that are vital to automatic updating of Windows and Microsoft software installed on the machine. This task tin can go online, evaluate the applicability of healing actions, download necessary payloads to execute the deportment and execute healing actions. On my PC it gets triggered every xx hours. The SIH in SIHClient.exe presumably stands for Service Initiated Healing.

Other notes:

Its relatedSIHClient.exe, WaaSMedic.exe, WaaSMedicSvc.dll and WaaSMedicPS.dll files are institute in the Windows\System32 binder
Its dependencies are Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
It maintains its log file in C:\Windows\Logs\waasmedic folder
This Service has been configured to kickoff in the Manual startup mode.

WaaSMedicSVC.exe High or 100% Disk Usage

If your WaaSMedicSVC shows high deejay or memory usage it simply means that it is doing its job. This post volition bear witness you how to fix Waasmedic Agent Exe high CPU usage issues.

If this continues for long spells or frequently, I advise you run the Organization File Checker to repair this item file.

Tin yous disable Windows Update Medic Service?

Yes, you can disable Windows Update Medic Service, but if you lot endeavour to practice so via Windows Services Managing director, you will get an Access is Denied message.

To disable it, you lot will have to employ the Registry Editor, and change the value of Start in

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WaaSMedicSvc

to iv and then set the permission of the ket to SYSTEM Deny. This we do not recommend doing manually, every bit it too compromises your organisation

The easier style would be to take the help of a freeware called Windows Update Blocker.

If with a view to stopping automatic Windows Update on your Windows 10 PC you take disabled Windows Update Services, you may take institute that afterwards every update or upgrade or at some point in time, the operating organization resets all your Windows components and the Service configurations to their default values, thereby negating all the work y'all may accept washed to disable automatic Windows Updates.

On my Windows Pro PC, I have set the system to Notify me to download updates using Group Policy.

I propose that you likewise exercise that instead of completely disabling Windows Updates.

Nevertheless, if you exercise program to completely disable automatic Windows Updates, you will have to also disable this Windows Update Medic Service.

Read adjacent well-nigh the Update Orchestrator Service (UsoSvc) in Windows 11/10.

Anand Khanse is the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, a x-year Microsoft MVP (2006-xvi) & a Windows Insider MVP. Delight read the entire post & the comments first, create a Arrangement Restore Point earlier making whatsoever changes to your system & be careful about any third-party offers while installing freeware.