Ironically the old horses were faster! Run XP on modern hardware (if you can get it running at all) and you'll see what I mean. Explorer opens fully rendered in the span of a single frame (0.016 seconds). And XP was very slow and bloated for its time!
It'll do this even in VirtualBox, running about 20x snappier than the native host, which boggles my mind.
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