>INstalling Norton Anti-virus 2003 has cause my internal VFP application to stop making sound. It had been doing default windows events on msgbox() commands, so the user would hear a beep after saving a record, etc.
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>They swear they need those beeps.
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>what is the easiest way to play a WAV file 'manually ' in VFP???

Sure - just fire them with the _ShellExecute class from the _environ.vcx class library in the FFC:

oShellExec = NEWOBJECT('_ShellExecute','_environ.vcx')
oShellExec.ShellExecute('MyNeededSound.WAV')