CAB file extraction tool

[Bill Williams]

Does MS have a tool that will extract files from a CAB file? Or is there a
3rd party tool to do this?


Bill

 

[Don MI]

Does MS have a tool that will extract files from a CAB file? Or is there a
3rd party tool to do this?


Bill

Try right clicking on the CAB file and selecting Explore. Right click on the
file you want to extract and select Extract.

Don

 

[Joel Rubin]

Does MS have a tool that will extract files from a CAB file? Or is there a
3rd party tool to do this?

There used to be a tool name EXTRACT which had a bunch of options.

Extrac32 /e cabname.cab

in a "DOS" box seems to work but some of the other stuff like /d for
display doesn't seem to work anymore. It appears you have to include
the .cab in the extension.

Some of the third party zip programs also work - for example, freeware
www.zipgenius.it and I believe shareware winrar. (www.rarlabs.com)

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Does MS have a tool that will extract files from a CAB file? Or
is there a 3rd party tool to do this?

Hi

If you are thinking about a tool you can use from command line or
script, you can use extract.exe from Microsoft.

Extract.exe is included as a utility in the support tools installation
package on the WinXP CD.

Install "Support Tools" by starting suptools.msi from
<cd-drive>\Support\Tools\

Also note that there is updated versions of Support Tools available:

Windows XP Service Pack 2 Support Tools
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=49ae8576-9bb9-4126-9761-ba8011fabf38

If you don't have a WinXP CD, or you want to use the latest version of
the tools, it should be ok to install and use the downloadable SP2
version of Support Tools on a WinXP SP1 computer.

 

[Kenny S]

Download and install this Free program

IZARC

http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/download.htm

IZArc is the ultimate archive utility suports many archive formats like:
7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BZ2, BZA, CAB, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ,
GZA, HA, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MBF, MIM, PAK, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ,
TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO. With a modern easy-to-use
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IZArc has also build-in multilanguage support.
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[Bob I]

FWIW Winzip will let you play with
"CAB" files.

 

[Bill Williams]

I tried the right click, but explore is not an option. Opening it with
WinZip is and that works good. Thank you for your help.

Bill