re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files'
Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 3:32 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(23820 messages posted)
Don't delete the 74mb driver.cab file, it is needed if you install new hardware.
Tens of megabytes are nothing these days with 100+ GB drives, you may want to upgrade
your hard drive, they're not very expensive.
You can turn off the fie protection system, and remove more than 450MB in the dllcache
folder. But before doing this you must fully understand the consequences and need
to have a decent backup procedure, which also means you would need another hard drive.
On Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 2:26 pm, bill wrote:
>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
>
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