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Old June 23rd 07, 07:43 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
John
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Default Where in the world is Cabinet.exe and Compressed Folders for Win98

I have Windows 98 on another computer. I am trying to download CABINET.EXE
and COMPRESSED FOLDERS for Windows 98 because they are not there.

But, I cannot download the files from any website that I know hasn't got
viruses. I search at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/ and what? Nothing?!
Exactly.

Thanks Microsoft

Where can I get a copy of these 2 files?
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Old June 23rd 07, 08:28 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
Gary S. Terhune[_2_]
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Default Where in the world is Cabinet.exe and Compressed Folders for Win98

Cabinet.exe is not a Windows file. In fact, all I find on it suggests that
said file is spyware. The utility in Windows for viewing CAB files is
cabview, but it's not an EXE file, it's a DLL.

Compressed Folders is not available in Windows 98, only in ME and XP (and
Vista, I presume.) Compressed Folders simply shows CAB and ZIP files as
folders.

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"John" wrote in message
...
I have Windows 98 on another computer. I am trying to download CABINET.EXE
and COMPRESSED FOLDERS for Windows 98 because they are not there.

But, I cannot download the files from any website that I know hasn't got
viruses. I search at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/ and what?
Nothing?!
Exactly.

Thanks Microsoft

Where can I get a copy of these 2 files?



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Old June 25th 07, 08:59 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
James
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Default Where in the world is Cabinet.exe and Compressed Folders forWin98

Gary S. Terhune wrote:
Cabinet.exe is not a Windows file. In fact, all I find on it suggests that
said file is spyware. The utility in Windows for viewing CAB files is
cabview, but it's not an EXE file, it's a DLL.

Compressed Folders is not available in Windows 98, only in ME and XP (and
Vista, I presume.) Compressed Folders simply shows CAB and ZIP files as
folders.

If you run Free Commander, from wwww.FreeCommander.com, zip or rar files
can be viewed as though they are ordinary files. This will provide a
more useful form of compression since compressed drives in Win9x work
only on FAT16 drives & NTFS is not viewable with Win9x which presents a
problem for many multi-boot systems. The program provides a Win3.1
style File Manager display with 2 main panes but many added features.
Most files, word, excel, power point, open office, star office, .jpg,
..gif, .pdf, etc. can be viewed without extracting the files. Other, not
so common, files need to be extracted for use. On a large drive
containing many small files I have 700k folders taking 7gigs of drive
space when the folder is not compressed. Compressing with the rar
format results in disk space taken of just over 700k providing much more
effective disk space usage while maintaining drive compatibility across
several MS OS's and Upuntu Linux. Windows Explorer in Win9x & 2000pro
cannot view a zip or rar file without extracting the file first.

James
 




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