Thats because you have not given the full path along with the filename.Try giving the full path along with the file name.I think that will work fine to play the wave file from any part of the system.

Using VC 5, the following code: BOOL WinBool=TRUE; bool cppBool=true; WinBool = cppBool; cppBool = WinBool; produces the following: warning C4800: 'int' : forcing value to bool 'true' or 'false' (performance warning) I think that there are many of us C++ programers that would consider mixing types like that sloppy and we are suspicious of programmers that program like that when it is not necessary.