Normally, doing something like starting a New project would give me my first window in a split second. I also noticed a slight lag in the program I am running inside the guest OS. This is true for even simple WAV files like a notification tone.

The boot up tones play fine when starting the guest OS, but after that it gets rough. (new last January when I upgraded from Win7 to Win10) After a major windows 10 update a couple of days ago (beyond the normal security or monthly updates), the sound inside the guest OS is very rough. Host Win10 and running WinXP as a guest OS for a legacy program using VMware Workstation 15.5.1.