Does anyone recognize the taskbar icon shown farthest to the right in this printscreen grab? Between 15-30 minutes after a full restart, the icon appears for 2 seconds in the taskbar and causes a stutter in AMS2 because that application/runtime/whatever launches and is brought to the foreground. I can't find the icon in the list of applications in "Add/remove programs" nor in Task Manager, and I can't find it when browsing recursively through my file system, either. Google reverse image search reveals no results. I've tried clicking on the icon, alt-tabbing, hovering the pointer over it in order to identify the name, but so far I've been unsuccessful. It appears so briefly that I can't react quickly enough to identify it. The only stuff I've consciously installed on my Windows 10 Home edition PC is various Steam games, VR runtimes, and Sim equipment runtimes. I'm guessing that it's some kind of auto-updater. My workaround so far has been to avoid restarting my PC unless absolutely necessary, or wait an hour after last restart before I can play AMS2. Are there any system logs on my PC that I can look through to see a history of launched processes?
Are you Logitech user? (so not necessarily wheel, but keyboard, mouse etc.) It seems to be related to "Logitech Unifying Software".
Thanks, that seems to be the culprit! Yes, I have a Logitech MX Ergo trackball. I'll investigate how to disable or mitigate that the process launches.