What do you mean 'cannot'? Do you get an error, something else?
What operation/action do you pass to Shellexecute() ?

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>On one of the clients PC I can start a PDF (Adobe Reader 9) by double-clicking the file, but the same file I cannot from the VFP app which uses ShellExecute() to display the file. This happens only on one workstation, elsewhere it works fine.