Cab

Cabinet, abbreviated as cab, is a compressed file archive format used in Microsoft Windows. A single cabinet file, or cab file, may contain multiple files within a relative directory hierarchy.

The default file extension of a cabinet file is .cab.

Extracting files from a cabinet archive

Any or all the files may be extracted from the cabinet archive, using any of the following methods.

In File Explorer, highlight the .cab file by clicking it once. The header Compressed folder tools appears in the title bar. Beneath this, click Extract to show extraction options.

In File Explorer, double-click a .cab file to navigate the files and directories contained in the archive. The Compressed folder tools header and Extract option appear, and may be used as in the previous method.

At the Command Prompt, use the extrac32 command to extract the contents of a cabinet file. For example:

extrac32 file.cab

You may also use a third-party compression utility, such as 7-Zip, to open a cabinet file and extract its contents.

Creating a cabinet archive

To create a cabinet file, you can use the makecab command at the Command Prompt. For example, to create a cabinet, file.cab, containing one file, file.txt, you may use the command:

makecab file.txt file.cab

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