I've drilled down into the problem further and you're quite right, it looks like the culprit is a different piece of software that's aggressively updating its taskbar icon, resulting in a lot of GDI calls which seem to block Windows Explorer at various points, making the shell sometimes appear quite "laggy". The "inject.dll" belonging to 7+ Taskbar Tweaker incorrectly led me to believe it was at fault. Thanks for your help, I'll investigate further and get the related software vendor involved.
Hey there,
Thanks for taking the time to reply!
I've drilled down into the problem further and you're quite right, it looks like the culprit is a different piece of software that's aggressively updating its taskbar icon, resulting in a lot of GDI calls which seem to block Windows Explorer at various points, making the shell sometimes appear quite "laggy". The "inject.dll" belonging to 7+ Taskbar Tweaker incorrectly led me to believe it was at fault. Thanks for your help, I'll investigate further and get the related software vendor involved.
Sorry for the trouble!
-SDL