Just for experimental purpose, you can try disabling all UI animation to make ui interactions instant [1], and perhaps disable ALL antivirus and their filesyste

Just for experimental purpose, you can try disabling all UI animation to make ui interactions instant [1], and perhaps disable ALL antivirus and their filesystem filter drivers as they make all disk access slower [2] (including windows defender, you can re-enable it again after you're finished messing around). See if those tweaks can actually make your computer as fast as the old machines. [1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-off-office-animations-9ee5c4d2-d144-4fd2-b670-22cef9fa025a https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-off-office-a... [2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/performance/deactivate-kernel-mode-filter-driver https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server...