Desktop rename/drop file slight delay - issue or intended?

[Windows 10 Pro Version: 20H2 (Build 19042.746)]

Hello,

I need someone to tell me if it is just me or if there actually IS a very slight delay when:

- hitting enter after renaming a file on the desktop or
- dropping a dragged file on the desktop

If it is intended behaviour, I must have missed it all these years.

What I think might be the cause:
I was experimenting with Symlinks/Junctions/Hardlinks because I wanted to free up space on the system drive by offloading it onto a bigger non-system drive. I created quite a few of them (always one at a time existed) via CMD (mklink "E:PathSymlink_File.txt" "F:Real_File.txt") to see what works. At first I mixed up Link <-> Target a few times and I always removed the links via "right click -> delete"

Can I actually mess something up by NOT using the CMD to remove links/junctions?

What I did to find the possible issue:
- Did a clean reboot with custom services disabled via msconfig. It didn't change anything. The only thing I observed in the Task Manager was "explorer.exe" going to the top of the detailed task list (sorted by CPU) when I dropped a file
- Did an In-Place repair via the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool. I kept all personal Apps and Data. It didn't help.

Now, before doing a complete windows re-installation with complete app removal, I would like to know if I should consider this behaviour an alarming issue or not.

Thank you so much for any help!

I think you can probably sort this all out without any drastic action.

1 Those mklink commands do not look right to me.
MKLink - SS64

2 You can get lists of junctions using these commands

Code:

dir c:\ /al /s

Code:

dir /s /A | find "JUNCTION"

There's some general info in my ditty on junctions etc #3 - TenForums

Denis