Windows notification sound is delayed

Whenever windows plays a notification sound, it's delayed, by up to 2 seconds. This is extremely annoying.

Steps I already tried:

• Verified that all drivers are up to date
• Reinstalled Windows
• Verified there are no Windows Updates left to be installed

What works is the following:

• Go to device manager, find the Realtek audio device
• Uninstall it removing the driver as well
• Search for newly installed devices, an Intel Audio device will be found
• Click on it, choose install drivers automatically
• Audio device works again, without any delay

This lasts until the next reboot d'oh

Can somebody provide me with a script which does the steps above on every windows start? I doubt somebody is able to fix this in a proper way

Here's how I'm circumnavigating the issue.

1. Open command line
2. use: "pnputil /enum-devices /class MEDIA" and look for the device ID of "Realtek Audio"
3. Create a batch file as below, and update the id
4. Go to task scheduler, and create a task which runs the batch file on startup
5. This will uninstall the device forcefully, and start a scan which reinstalls it on startup REM Uninstall device and initiate a scan for devices which "reinstalls" it pnputil /force /remove-device "INTELAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0289&SUBSYS_10280B19&REV_1000\5&2a97a754&0&0001" pnputil /scan-devices

Sidenodes:

• Using pnputil with the restart parameter doesn't work
• Using pnputil with disable device and enable device afterwards also doesn't work

I'm still very curious, how only an uninstall of the device resolves the issue.