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re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' Tuesday, December 19, 2006 at 10:22 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33507 messages posted) --"I have a question about a supposed program called "portfolio Analysis.cab" which I cannot get to open..." Why don't you find out from the place where you got this s'posed program? Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' Wednesday, December 20, 2006 at 6:18 am Posted by Ricer46 (22031 messages posted) cab files are not programs. A cab file is simply a storage file that contains many files. There are free cab readers that can be found with a google search. On Tuesday, December 19, 2006 at 9:35 pm, John Richardson wrote: >I have a question about a supposed program called "portfolio Analysis.cab" which >I cannot get to open in XP. I am directed to an Extract box which asks me to extract >the file and when i do this the same process repeats itself when i try to open the >extracted file. Any ideas ?? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' Friday, March 23, 2007 at 5:25 am Posted by Daniel Yu (1 messages posted) It seems quite a few people having the problem with .cab files under XP. I hit the similar problem recently when trying installing some software consisting of .cab files. The installation program(InstallShield) throws up a "Error 1335：data1.cab is corrupt ..." and exits unsuccessfully. If you have the same problem, do the following: 1. check what program is currently associated with .cab files (by creating a dummy cab file, for example); 2. open that program and de-select its association with .cab. This should restore original XP built-in program to opening the cab files. What's happened here is 3rd party zip/unzip programs (WinRAR for example) pop up those sales windows during installation, invisible to you but stop the installation from continuing and make it exit with "error 1335..." which doesn't really tell you the underlying cause and what to do next . On Tuesday, December 19, 2006 at 9:35 pm, John Richardson wrote: >I have a question about a supposed program called "portfolio Analysis.cab" which >I cannot get to open in XP. I am directed to an Extract box which asks me to extract >the file and when i do this the same process repeats itself when i try to open the >extracted file. Any ideas ?? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum