Landy,

Check my website, under Q&A, General, Article qGEN011 for an alternative to SET BELL.

Do all wav files cause crashes? Can you play the wav itself from explorer several times without crashing? Is it possible your douglas.wav file is corrupted?

>I have tried using the command:
>SET BELL TO "c:\douglas.wav"
>to create sound effect in a Visual FoxPro 6.0 application Service pack 3. After doing a couple of sounds, the machine locks up. Any ideas?