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Establish a clean boot to rule out any freeloaders on the system: Troubleshooting Steps for Windows 7
I have found a solution that seems to work in my case (so far):
In DEVICE MANAGER, open PROPERTIES for the USB-device. Choose the POLICY-tab and select "Better performance".
Now I only need to figure out how to use this setting as default.