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COPYING THE WINDOWS 9x CAB FILES
If you've taken a look at your Windows 9x CD ROM, you've
no doubt found that there is a WIN95 folder (or Win98
folder) which contains a bunch of files each having an
extension of ".CAB". For instance, on my old
Win95 install CD there are files called WIN95_02.CAB,
WIN95_03.CAB, and so on up to WIN95_29.CAB. These are
"cabinet" files which contain the Windows 95
code compressed. My Win98 install CD had similarly named
files, except that the 95 was replaced by 98.
The program that decompresses the files (much like
PKUNZIP or WINZIP or various others, which decompress
files with an extension of ".ZIP") is called
EXTRACT.EXE. Many of you who bought your computers fairly
recently (at least since Windows 95 came out a few years
ago) will have a copy of these same files on your hard
drive, often in a WIN95 folder or Win98 folder. My old
Windows 95 Hewlett Packard Pavilion computer came that
way. Another common place to store these folders is in a
folder called
Windows\Options\Cabs.
My Dell computer that came with Windows ME installed on
it had those files stored in a folder named as above. It
takes up a fair amount of space (at least 40 megabytes),
but it's a fast way of installing different Windows
components, without having to dig out the CD. If you have
the room on your hard drive and you don't already have a
WIN9x or Option\Cabs folder, then you can use Explorer to
copy the CD ROM folder onto your hard drive.
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