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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Cat,

I would no delete anything in Windows\SysBackup Folder. I especially would not delete 
any .cab Files. It's very doubtful that anything you did would create .Cab files 
and placed them in Sysbackup without you knowing about it.

While on the subject, if you are looking for more HDD space do not look within the 
Windows Folder. Try program files first. My Documents is also a good place to look 
for wasted space.

Unless you have a very small HDD there is not enough space in the whole Windows folder 
to make a difference.

BW







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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|My hard drive is getting full, and I'm trying to delete unused files.
| Cat Travers

Stuff you can delete from your hard drive to make space:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1123704394

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Hi,
In your situation I would try and find out what my memory guzzlers were.  I have 
a program called treesize.exe which can list every folder in order of memory taken. 
 Alternatively use the find files facility and find on the C drive all files over 
a certain size say 500kb.  To do this select the 'c' drive put in *.* and on the 
advance tab select files with a 'minimum size of say 500kb.  This will direct you 
to where the large files are.  You can then decide to either uninstall the program, 
delete the files, or convert the files.  One of the common memory guzzlers are BMP 
picture files which can easily be converted to jpg format with a reduced quality 
with no on screen visible difference.  Be a little bit careful on this as some programs 
need some picture files in BMP format and if you are printing the picture file, especially 
if enlarged, you might want to stick with the BMP format or a high quality jpg.
Mike







On Tuesday, April 4, 2006 at 9:09 pm, bob wells wrote:

>Cat,

>

>I would no delete anything in Windows\SysBackup Folder. I especially would not delete 

>any .cab Files. It's very doubtful that anything you did would create .Cab files 

>and placed them in Sysbackup without you knowing about it.

>

>While on the subject, if you are looking for more HDD space do not look within the 

>Windows Folder. Try program files first. My Documents is also a good place to look 

>for wasted space.

>

>Unless you have a very small HDD there is not enough space in the whole Windows 
folder 

>to make a difference.

>

>BW

>

>

> 

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Memory was not the posters problem. If her disk is getting full, the way to fix that 
is download another program? I think NOT.







On Wednesday, April 5, 2006 at 12:30 pm, mick wrote:

>Hi,

>In your situation I would try and find out what my memory guzzlers were.  I have 

>a program called treesize.exe which can list every folder in order of memory taken. 

> Alternatively use the find files facility and find on the C drive all files over 

>a certain size say 500kb.  To do this select the 'c' drive put in *.* and on the 

>advance tab select files with a 'minimum size of say 500kb.  This will direct you 

>to where the large files are.  You can then decide to either uninstall the program, 

>delete the files, or convert the files.  One of the common memory guzzlers are BMP 

>picture files which can easily be converted to jpg format with a reduced quality 

>with no on screen visible difference.  Be a little bit careful on this as some programs 

>need some picture files in BMP format and if you are printing the picture file, 
especially 

>if enlarged, you might want to stick with the BMP format or a high quality jpg.

>Mike

>

>

> 

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Hi,

I suggest you read the question again and I quote" My hard drive is getting full, 
and I'm trying to delete unused files". ... The aspect of the CAB files is a secondary 
issue! 

As regards downloading another program is concerned it is a very small program 300kb 
and could easily be deleted after she has finished with it.... I think so!

Mike






On Wednesday, April 5, 2006 at 1:04 pm, bob wells wrote:

>Memory was not the posters problem. If her disk is getting full, the way to fix 
that 

>is download another program? I think NOT.

>

>

> 

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If so, that puts MEMORY about dead last.







On Wednesday, April 5, 2006 at 1:48 pm, mick wrote:

>

>Hi,

>

>I suggest you read the question again and I quote" My hard drive is getting full, 

>and I'm trying to delete unused files". ... The aspect of the CAB files is a secondary 

>issue! 

>

>As regards downloading another program is concerned it is a very small program 300kb 

>and could easily be deleted after she has finished with it.... I think so!

>

>Mike

>

> 

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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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