How to Open and Use a Cab File in Windows

A CAB, or Cabinet file, is a compressed file most often seen with Windows Updates (although they tend to use MSU more often now). Other times, people have downloaded files, like Realtek drivers, and aren't sure how to use them. Here's all you need to know.

[aftrprescott]

Finally! I got my video driver installed..Thank You!

[jesusisgodalmightyamen]

Shalom
Thank you Tim, for all you do, Sir.
Also a winrar user for about 20 years now.
Like you said, we're old :D


May Elohim keep you and your household healthy and save.

[TheTowerNewsCenter]

I know this may be 3 years old video but why do i keep getting errors

[GoldyGoldmembers]

Appreciate you. Just helped me install this Xbox One controller on my Windows 7.

[AmisCorolla]

i have to use hard way, im installing drivers for bluetooth and in device manager it does not show bluetooth. when trying that hard way it gives error that it can't find that cab file. What is the solution ?

[darziagonzalez]

I tried this neat hack but it's not working and I'm not sure how to open it. I got a new PC and disks from Walmart and it keeps saying cannot insert Cabinet file

[kalvins]

Good day, I received an error when I was installing app in my laptop. This is what the error says:

The cabinet file _3792F148CC55E 53D25570471FF503CEF' required for this installation is
corrupt and cannot be used. This could indicate a network error, an error reading from the
CD-ROM, or a problem with this package.

So can you tell me what it means & what do I need to do?

by the way, I'm using a laptop with Windows 11

[googleuser]

How about making and opening a cab file using command prompt

[calholli]

I had so many cab files that it was filling up my hard drive.. So I just deleted them all. There was some sort of glitch.. It literally filled my 1TB hard drive.. So I deleted everything in win/temp/cab files.. and everything in win/logs/cbs .. and My HDD reduced down to the usual 200gB or so again. That was like 5 years ago. Has worked great ever since

[educatedhadhramis]

hey
can u help me to decrypt me pics and vids, i got *.btos ransome virus.
now my files are like
000.jpeg.btos
and cand be opened.
plz help me
thank you in advance

[myerwerl]

Please please help me. My omputer crashed, i tried everything to get it back up and running. I finally resorted to fresh install windows 10. The problem is, its like a clean install. My laptop is dell venue 11 pro, it doesnt have the speaker drivers, it doesnt have wireless drivers, it doesnt have touch screen functionality, nothing. So i donwload dell drivers pack and it just shows this cab file. My question is, will those files fix my lack of drivers issue? I already tried windows update, driver booster whatever, the intial drivers are just not there.

[camycamy]

What if my WiFi adapter is missing? I've downloaded the driver but don't know how to install it it.

[themissinfowar]

Am I the only one still using briefcase 💼 and cabinet 🗄 files regularly in Windows 🪟 11?

[oddfuture]

We're old we dont like change
So you know get off my lawn dude
Lmao priceless

[gearfriedtheswmas]

You should try extracting it with no internet, I bet it first uploads each file to microsoft before extracting the next.

[biloparisien]

Hi how are u bro ? Can u give me hand plz