Cab Cleaner

kilroy2963 · Mar 4, 2007, 02:01 AM

I just purchased DC and ran it and noticed when I select Cab Cleaner it says " No Files Found" then pops up with the Cab Cleaning tool but the drop down boxes and buttons do not work. Im running MS Vista Ultimate and will post my other specs as well.

Abit Fatality AN8SLI
AMD64 X2 4800
EVGA GeForce 8800GTS
Creative Fatality XFI Sound Card Pro Seies
Corsair TwinX2048-3200C2PT
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb
Maxtor SATA150 160GB HD 8MB Cache
LG 18X Super Multi DVD Rewriter with LightScribe
Samsung Syncmaster 930B 19in LCD
Corsair HX Series 620 Watt

**Spike** · Mar 5, 2007, 09:33 PM

Hi,

when you run Cab Cleaner the program searches for cab files. When it does not find any it will say "No Files Found". This is correct on Windows Vista. In Windows Vista microsoft does not use cab files anymore. They have the driver files in a special driver folder. You don't need to run Cab Cleaner on Vista, the file search in Driver Cleaner will find those old driver files and removes those also.

kilroy2963 · Mar 6, 2007, 04:23 AM

Cool, thank you very much!!

OAKsider · Mar 13, 2007, 07:18 AM

Yes, very cool. Thanks for the tips Spike.

willy2 · Mar 17, 2007, 06:41 PM

I am also running vista ultimate and after running DC and i reboot into normal mode to install the new nvidia drivers it asks me if i want to overwrite cab files that are already on my computer and yet Cab Cleaner says that it cannot find any files. The cab files it wants to overwrite are nvidia files.

**Spike** · Mar 17, 2007, 06:58 PM

Can you tell me exactly what is says? Does it ask this when you start the new driver install? if so then it is because those cab files are from the nvidia installer and Cab Cleaner does not look for those. Cab Cleaner looks for Drivers.Cab and SP*.Cab and those are on special locations and not available on Vista.

Mar 4, 2007, 02:01 AM	#1
kilroy2963 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	Cab Cleaner I just purchased DC and ran it and noticed when I select Cab Cleaner it says " No Files Found" then pops up with the Cab Cleaning tool but the drop down boxes and buttons do not work. Im running MS Vista Ultimate and will post my other specs as well. Abit Fatality AN8SLI AMD64 X2 4800 EVGA GeForce 8800GTS Creative Fatality XFI Sound Card Pro Seies Corsair TwinX2048-3200C2PT Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb Maxtor SATA150 160GB HD 8MB Cache LG 18X Super Multi DVD Rewriter with LightScribe Samsung Syncmaster 930B 19in LCD Corsair HX Series 620 Watt Last edited by kilroy2963; Mar 4, 2007 at 02:10 AM.

Mar 5, 2007, 09:33 PM	#2
Spike Driver Cleaner Maker Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 2,085 Rep Power: 69 System Specs	Hi, when you run Cab Cleaner the program searches for cab files. When it does not find any it will say "No Files Found". This is correct on Windows Vista. In Windows Vista microsoft does not use cab files anymore. They have the driver files in a special driver folder. You don't need to run Cab Cleaner on Vista, the file search in Driver Cleaner will find those old driver files and removes those also. __________________

Mar 13, 2007, 07:18 AM	#4
OAKsider DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Boat, Gulf Posts: 59 Rep Power: 0	Yes, very cool. Thanks for the tips Spike. __________________ [COLOR=gray][COLOR=gray] [/COLOR][/COLOR]

Mar 17, 2007, 06:58 PM	#6
Spike Driver Cleaner Maker Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 2,085 Rep Power: 69 System Specs	Can you tell me exactly what is says? Does it ask this when you start the new driver install? if so then it is because those cab files are from the nvidia installer and Cab Cleaner does not look for those. Cab Cleaner looks for Drivers.Cab and SP*.Cab and those are on special locations and not available on Vista. __________________

Mar 6, 2007, 04:23 AM	Thread Starter #3
kilroy2963 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	Cool, thank you very much!!

Mar 17, 2007, 06:41 PM	#5
willy2 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	I am also running vista ultimate and after running DC and i reboot into normal mode to install the new nvidia drivers it asks me if i want to overwrite cab files that are already on my computer and yet Cab Cleaner says that it cannot find any files. The cab files it wants to overwrite are nvidia files.