Try this:
http://appsapps.info/idlestart.php

Hi,

I can't seem to find anything that does what you specifically want to do.  Is it hard to write?  I don't think so.  I'm happy to give it a spin.  I won't be able to start until tomorrow night though (don't have a mic on my pc at work, so will have to wait until tomorrrow evening when I'm at home).

Out of interest, what do you plan to use it for?


Cheers

[q]Newer isn't always better...[/q]

I couldn't agree with you more....

But I think you are missing the whole point of this site, (well, the coding snacks at least...)  These are 'simple' little apps, written to other people's specifications in a short time.  They are not big commercial products, where there is a development and testing team bashing the software to bits to make sure it runs on this OS or on that OS....  Making sure it doesn't break because of this or because of that.  yes, of course the author will test to a degree, but I'm sure most if not all of the programmers would not have time once they have written a coding snack, to test it on 85, 98, NT4,. 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, ME, 7 (and whatever else I missed).  Chances are they are only running one of those OS's themselves. 

If it didn't work on 98 for you, I would have suggested a simple message to this thread along the lines of:
"I have tried this program on Windows 98, and currently it does not work because................."

They may then give the auther the oppurtunity to then look into the issue, and perhaps create you a version that does run on 98. 

Cheers