PCs

Why is my PC suddenly so slow? Do they build in obsolescence in some secret way, like they do with cars (where they deliberately use bits that rust or snap or in some other way will definitely need replacing)? It's a couple of years old now, admittedly, but it was quite a zippy one to start with. Now it seems to struggle just to refresh the bloody screen!

Or is it just the case that software becomes increasingly complex over time, such that all those ever-so-necessary security updates etc. just add massive amounts of difficulty to your standard programmes, on the assumption that, as some sort of capitalist corollary to Moore's Law (which is basically that computers double in amazingness every 18 months), people are buying themselves newer, faster, better computers all the time anyway and it doesn't matter if the ones from three years ago seem to be made out of balsawood for all their computing punch?

Okay, this blog was more of a moan than a fact - but I mentioned Moore's Law, so that counts...