Extracting Windows files

If you want to extract some original Windows files from the Windows CD, then you can do this using the command extract:

Application: extract /a /l <target directory> <cabinet file> <file name>

/a means that all cabinet files as of the cabinet file named will be searched through after the files to be extracted. It makes sense to enter a cabinet file with a small number as the starting file.

/l <target directory> shows where the file will be written.

<cabinet file> Name of the cabinet file.

<file name> the file to be extracted

As of Windows 98 on the Windows CD under Tools\Reskit\Diagnose there is the program FileInfo, which for every file shows the cabinet file it is contained in.