Windows XP and Media Encoder slowing down over time?

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I'm having a problem with Windows Media Encoder gradually degrading a tablet computer's performance over a few months. I have a Fujitsu-Siemens ST5020D tablet with 1GB of memory running Windows XP SP2 which I use to give lectures. I run Windows Media Encoder 9 in order to record the lecture, with both screen and audio capture. The thing is, at the start of term with a fresh install of everything, including the OS, the machine runs fine. The performance degrades gradually over term, getting to the point where the machine runs so slowly when Encoder is running that I can't see what I'm sketching - there are lots of lags in the screen updates, and the output files start to have glitches in the audio, which indicates to me that Encoder can't keep up. The machine works fine when encoder isn't running. I don't use the machine for anything other than lecture recording and Windows Movie Maker to convert the output. It is occasionally connected to the Internet to allow Norton Anti-virus to update. Removing and re-installing Encoder doesn't help. System Information tells me that there is 1024MB of physical memory with 509MB of available memory and a 2.38GB pagefile.

Does anyone have any ideas what is throttling this machine?
 
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