UI Hickups on new Laptop

Hello,
i am experiencing hickups on my new Laptop. The UI just freezes for a couple of seconds, even at the top right the blinking symbol indicating that i can start the tutorial freezes within its blinking motion. Then it goes all back to normal just to freeze up again a minute later. It is really annoying. The actual frame rates when playing are fine. No visible spikes on the Task manager, no overheating GPU/CPU, it does not seem to be related to the hardware.

I disabled common troublemakers from the startup, even disabled all shell extentions but to no help.

Kind of stuck right now.

I am running Unreal Engine 4.1.6, installed on my SSD on my MSI GL72 Apache Pro, with an i7-7700HQ and a GTX1060, 16GB of RAM.