So far the only res editor that works with win7 is the one that is in visual studio 2008. It shows all resources. For example explorer.exe has 6 dialog and menu resource.
Why not just install it from hdd? just copy the dvd content in to a active partition and boot from that. The partition can be ntfs. That is how I did it.
Just curious is that failing hotfix: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP (KB950759) For some odd reason I cant install it from windows update. It just fails