I have seen a few responses that say that CAB file viewing is built into ME but IT'S NOT TRUE - at least not in my version. If I click on a CAB file in Explorer I just get the 'open with ...' dialog box. Andrew

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Should be working by default. You may have something installed that is disabling them.

Check in Folder Options, File Types tab. Scroll down and make sure there is no entry for CAB in the list. If there is, delete it.

You could try enabling Compressed Folder (ZIP) support.

Go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Windows Setup tab. Select the System Tools line and click details. Verify that the "Compressed Folders" option is enabled. This enables Windows ME's ZIP file support. This might be disabled if you have installed an unneeded third party program for handling ZIP files.

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Thanks but I don't have any strange CAB viewer installed (I would not get the 'open with' dialog if I did) and compressed file viewing is enabled. However, I found this MSDN article...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;197144

My registry was completely missing the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.cab When I set it as instructed in the article, and rebooted, that solved my problem!

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