Created : Aug. 27,2000
	Windows 98SE: Setup (CAB) -Files are installed on your disk

Microsoft seems to assume, that Windows 98SE will be only installed on systems with
plenty of disk-capacity, because without asking the user during installation, if copies all
setup-files from the CD-ROM to the harddisk.

Check your system by selecting from the "Start"-menu: "Find" / "Files or Folders" and
search for *.cab:


When you have a closer look at the folder: Windows\options\cabs :

121 Mbytes of Setup-files !
(some of you should remember the original Windows 95 released in Aug.95 ? If you got it on floppies:
15 (? ) floppies; on CD-ROM, it had 17 CAB-files, while Windows98-SE comes on 74 CAB-files, quite a growth ! )

If you are short in disk-capacity on your C-drive, you can move these 121 Mbytes to a different
disk-drive (or you can decide to install any required files from CD-ROM (although it is much
more convenient to have the setup-files directly accessible on harddisk ).

If you move these setup-files, you need to update the Registry under the key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup :

It contains under the key : "SourcePath" the location of the setup-files, change it to point to the
new disk-location or to "Win98"-directory on the Windows98-SE-CD-ROM.

Have a closer look at the display-icon of the CAB-files ?

The CAB-viewer is integrated into the Windows Explorer (on Win95, a CAB-viewer could be downloaded from the Microsoft website as part of the PowerToys). However: although the files inside a CAB-file are displayed like a regular folder and although you can use Copy/Paste and/or Drag-and-Drop to copy files from a CAB-file to another location (you can NOT copy a file INTO a CAB-file), files inside a CAB-file can NOT be used directly: example, when double-clicking on an AVI-file (to start the Media-Player ) inside a CAB-file, you are first prompted for a location to copy the file before the file will be display from its new location.