Windows 10: A very loud laptop (fan) got quiet after windows reinstallation? Is ths possible?

I have a 9 year old laptop. It's still a great machine, the only problem I had was the noise, at some point it got quite loud (and hot), as probably normal with old laptops, people used to have a hard time staying in the same room with it. Now I reinstall my windows at least once a year. Whenever it gets buggy or a bit slowish I just do a quick clean install.

Although all the reinstallations in the past did nothing to help with the heat and the noise (not that I expected it to), the last time I did it completely got rid of the problem. My laptop is silent as new. I can still hear the fan running silently so it's not broken. The heat is down as well, it's warm, not even hot. I don't notice any change in its performance (if anything, it's better after the clean installation).

So the question is - what happened? I thought I would have to take my laptop apart and apply some new cooling paste or something. Did Microsoft optimized something within the past year that helps with the overheating?? I'm happy, but quite confused. Any idea what happened?

I have asus k55vj with an added ssd and some extra ram.

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Screenshot of device manager: Img

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