I sure can't determine from what you said why you would not be able to open any of the files when you are in Windows. Obviously they would be read-only so you couldn't edit them, but almost all editors would open them and at least let you see them. My guess is that the disk isn't burnt properly and that you're not really seeing what you think and say you are seeing. Granted that's only a guess, but you have not given us much else to go on.

You might want to try and see if you can drag and drop of copy of one of these files you want to open onto your Windows had drive and try to open it there.

It seems likely that you didn't burn the ISO properly. See the downloading faq for details. See answer #1 if you don't know where the faq is. I'm expecting that you may have just copied the ISO to the CD, or "extracted" files from the ISO (although the second case would not explain why you can't edit files on the cd, but either would explain why the CD does not boot).