Sound Resource File & XP crash

This sound resoucre fil works great in Win98

but in Xp it take about 3 seconds to load and osmtimes doesnt play and also crashes VB or the program

Is there an update to get please help???

Code:

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Option Explicit

Private Declare Function sndPlaySound Lib "winmm.dll" _
                Alias "sndPlaySoundA" _
                (ByVal lpszSoundName As String, _
                ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long

Private Const SND_ASYNC = &H1  '  play asynchronously
Private Const SND_MEMORY = &H4 '  lpszSoundName points to a memory file
Private Const SND_NODEFAULT = &H2  '  silence not default, if sound not found


Private Sub PlayIt(WavID As Variant)
  Dim SoundBuffer As String
  SoundBuffer = StrConv(LoadResData(WavID, "WAVE"), vbUnicode)
  sndPlaySound SoundBuffer, SND_ASYNC Or SND_NODEFAULT Or SND_MEMORY
End Sub


Private Sub Command1_Click()
 PlayIt "CHIMES"
End Sub

Private Sub Command2_Click()
 PlayIt "CHORD"
End Sub

Private Sub Command3_Click()
PlayIt "DING"
End Sub

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