>When I click on their icons the cursor changes to an hourglass for a
>bit and then back to a pointer, and that's it - nothing actually runs.
>The disk whirrs a bit too. No error messages or anything. It's the
>same if I run them from the file manager.
>The odd thing is that I have the original Microsoft 1.0c versions of
>the three programs that came with the Windows SDK and they all work
>fine so I guess it's something that Asymetrix has modified that is
>causing the trouble? Perhaps the dlls they require?

1. Look for WINCOM.DLL and WRKBENCH.DLL in your Windows System directory.
2. Rename the files to temporary names (WINCOM.TMP WRKBENCH.TMP) and make sure that additional copies are not located in any directories on your PATH.
3. Restart Windows and launch the Asymetrix versions of BitEdit and PalEdit. They should now launch correctly.
4. Restore the names of the 2 DLLs.