re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files'
Wednesday, April 5, 2006 at 6:30 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Lee
(172 messages posted)
You ARE playing with fire!! The 2 meg cab files in your Sysbckup folder are your
registry back up files. They are created each day that you boot up such that you
may revert to an older registry by running scanreg /restore from a DOS boot. It's
good advise that you leave these files alone and allow them to overwrite themselves.
The cab files that you seem to want to delete are possibly in your Windows\Options\Cabs
folder. These would be your local copy of the Windows installation cab files as
found on your installation CD. Every file that is in your Win98 folder on the CD
can safely be removed from your hard drive. The local copy of those cab files may
be somewhere else, so use Find files for base4.cab file as an example. And they
may not be on your hard drive at all.
On Tuesday, April 4, 2006 at 12:22 pm, Cat Travers wrote:
>I have a question about Using
>.CAB Files: My hard drive is getting full, and I'm trying to delete unused
>files. I have five 2 mg cab files in my C:\Windows\Sysbckup folder that are all
dated
>within the last week, when I uninstalled Quicken, and deleted a necessary .dll file
>that the Quicken uninstall program erroneously told me was "no longer in use." I
>couldn't recall how to install a single file from my win98SE disk, so I tried several
>things before I got it right, and I suspect that's when the cab files were created.
>Is it OK to delete them now? I assume the .dll file has been extracted to the appropriate
>folder. If not, will I be prompted to reinstall whatever I need from the win98 disk,
>or am I playing with fire, here? Thanks for your help!
>
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