I'm running a 5-year old Dell system, Windows 98, with an nVidia TNT 16mb sound card. No problems until now. No problems in Device Manager. System sounds are playing.
It's a hit and miss thing. One time when I boot up the music players play with no problem for the whole session. The next time I boot up they might not. Right now they are not.
I downloaded the delayer and will give it a try. I have a list of things in start-up such as Pop-up Stopper, ACS95 surround speaker system, MS Intellitype Pro keyboard, Logitech wireless mouse, Tweak UI, ZoneAlarm and Avast. Any particular order? How far down the process should I put ZoneAlarm and Avast?