installing cab files - tip

[Guest drblow]

I'm not sure if this has been talked about before, but for the sake of rank amateurs like myself, I thought I should mention it.

I run windows xp & when I download some cab files, they appear in windows looking like a winzip file (sometimes my pc defaults to a view with no file extensions, so it is very difficult to tell them from a normal winzip file).

I noticed a few posts where other people, like me, were wondering about installing cab files, saying stuff like 'I extract the files & get a setup.xml & some other stuff' - this is what I see when I open a cab file with winzip. However, it is obviously still a cab file, and installs no problem when I just copy it directly to my phone - either by copying to IPSM/Windows/start menu, or to my storage card, and opening with smart explorer.

Maybe this will clear up some problems for dafties like myself!!

[Guest James]

if you want to be sure its a cab file then just look at the properties

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

No, to tell if its a .cab you should have "hide known file extensions" disabled in winidows. It's stupid that it's on as default and the reason 90% of viruses are spread tbh...

To turn it off, in any folder: tools > folder options (or view > folder properties for 9x) > view tab > uncheck "hide known file types".

~Everyone~ should to that, the virus.jpg.exe's will suddenly become a lot more obvious :lol:

[Guest James]

the viruses that the reception girls get at our work just by doing that is amazing!