A good .cab viewer / extractor?

volsmcfalls · #1 (**permalink**) 03-19-2009, 10:39 AM

Can someone recommend a good .cab viewer / extractor? I want to pull a few things from some .cabs. I googled and found a couple, but can anyone provide any recommendations / suggestions on which ones are good, fast, reliable, and have a relatively easy to use interface that a rookie can handle?

Thanks!

Machinehead · #2 (**permalink**) 03-19-2009, 11:01 AM

Winrar will work.

volsmcfalls · #3 (**permalink**) 03-19-2009, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Machinehead

Winrar will work.

Ah...I didn't realize that. Thanks! I am familiar with that program...

Machinehead · #4 (**permalink**) 03-19-2009, 12:16 PM

I learned that by accident.

divi786 · #5 (**permalink**) 03-19-2009, 12:29 PM

7-zip (Free & opensource) can open cab files to view/extract. 7-zip can also open most of the compressed formats (including ISO!!). Info from their site

Supported formats:

Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z.

rshyffer · #6 (**permalink**) 03-19-2009, 12:57 PM

The one problem I ran into with unzipping .cabs is that the file names are all obfuscated. I wrote a little program to go through the _setup.xml and rename them all to the correct name. It creates a sub directory called renamed and copies them in there. I have only tested this on a few _setup.xml files, so it is by no means comprehensive. You will probably need .NET 3.5 installed for this to run BTW.

Here is the exe and the source if you want to build/expand on it yourself:

frmariam · #7 (**permalink**) 03-21-2009, 04:04 PM

Try MSCEInf. Best suited for what you want

banzaiwolfe · #8 (**permalink**) 03-21-2009, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by frmariam

Try MSCEInf. Best suited for what you want

Yes, I use this also. +1