Mouse click delay on fenced icon

For some reason, the icons inside my fences takes at least a second to register a click/double click, which is painful to say the least.

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This has happened to me (very rarely) in the past, but the old trick of changing the Fences "Show Labels" option fixed it. Now its been over 1 week of this, and apparently its not going away.

I was using Fences 2.13 on Windows 10, but I know its not really supported so I uninstalled Fences 2 and installed a trial version of Fences 3 to test... same result, no matter what I tried.

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I made a few more tests and it is definitely because of the icon count.

I started deleting various kinds of shortcuts and fences, until I just realized that 0 icons = 0 delay, and every new icon I put inside a fence added a very tiny slight delay that eventually starts to mount up.

But I still don´t get why is this happening now.

Just in case. I revised every windows update (I had none the day it started failing) and new software, and none (should!) cause this issue. Im not on the Windows 10 Creator update yet. I also uninstalled Fences but this time deleted all settings folders and registry to start completely anew, with no results.

RAM memory and cpu's are mostly unused, with only a small <5% spike in explorer.exe and dwm.exe whenever I click on an icon, fenced or not, though only the icons inside fences have the delay.

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