If you need to find a file in your Windows Distribution CAB files, you need to be able to search inside CAB files. My utility, ZipScan, lets you do just that. In addition, you can search the version resources of files so your search is narrowed to the correct version. You can download an evaluation version of ZipScan, and find out more, at http://www.zipscan.co.uk/

[Reply or follow-up to this message]

you don't need any utility to find files in cabs.  You can use the standard windows 
search utility to search for *.cab containing text [file name that you're looking 
for] then use the powertoy cabview or winzip to extract it





On Friday, February 22, 2002 at 5:41 pm, Adrian Bhagat wrote:
>If you need to find a file in your Windows Distribution CAB files, you need to be 
>able to search inside CAB files. My utility, ZipScan, lets you do just that. In 
addition, 
>you can search the version resources of files so your search is narrowed to the 
correct 
>version. You can download an evaluation version of ZipScan, and find out more, at 
>http://www.zipscan.co.uk/ 

[Reply or follow-up to this message]

ms's extract.exe is also helpful if you want to tell it to extract a filename you 
specify (it has a flag to go through all the cabs, run it on a console with no flags 
to see the help)

(that way you're not searching through all the actual contents of the cabs to find 
the files in them, though that doesn't take long really)

you can get extract.exe here: 
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/extract-o.asp

(that version should probably work on xp too)

[Reply or follow-up to this message]

• Search this forum
• Start a new thread on a different subject

• Report abuse of the forum