Fabian, I have a very "extreme" idea...not tested here yet so if you think about doing it please try and test it in a test env before 12/8/2017/Friday...stop the animator when the time comes:
--rename animator_nxd.exe in the \bin folder. for example, to 12-8-2017-animator_nxd.exe
--when 12/8/2017 comes(meaning midnight), manually kill animator_nxd in the task manager
--when 12/9/2017 comes(meaning midnight), rename 12-8-2017-animator_nxd.exe back to animator_nxd.exe
and run "pdm_d_refresh"
this idea is so extreme that only after you can't find any other way to do it and only after you test it in a test env and don't see major problems. Any idea may be better than no idea(lol). Thanks _Chi