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Question about 'Using .CAB Files'
Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 2:26 pm
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Posted by bill (2 messages posted)


I have a question about DELETING .CAB Files:

Is this generally safe to do? I have a ton of them on my HD and some I recognize (eg "sp2.cab" is obviously a backup of SP2) but many I have no idea what they are for......and given some are tens of MB in size and I'm low on HD space, it's an issue. But I'm leery of deleting anything I'm not sure about, esp when they are in directories like C:\WINDOWS\SYSBACKUP or C:\WINDOWS\DRIVERCACHE. Worst of all is one under C:\WINDOWS\DRIVER CACHE\i386 that's over 74MB in size (!!). Thx for info


Responses to this message:
*re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' (Ricer46: Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 3:32 pm)
*re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' (Ms. Eagle: Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 3:36 pm)
*re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' (bill: Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 7:11 pm)
*re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' (Larry: Monday, October 2, 2006 at 8:40 am)
*re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' (Script: Saturday, September 1, 2007 at 1:46 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Question about 'Using .CAB Files' (bill: Sun, Oct 1, 2006, 2:26 pm)
*re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' (Ricer46: Sun, Oct 1, 2006, 3:32 pm)
*re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Oct 1, 2006, 3:36 pm)
-re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' (bill: Sun, Oct 1, 2006, 7:11 pm)
-re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Oct 1, 2006, 7:30 pm)
*Question about 'Using .CAB Files' (Howard: Wed, Jan 17, 2007, 1:45 pm)
*re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' (Larry: Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 8:40 am)
-re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' (Script: Sat, Sep 1, 2007, 1:46 pm)
*re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' (werner: Sat, Sep 1, 2007, 3:39 pm)
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