The My Downloads folder contains at least a hundred files with a .cab extension (e.g. Aug2005-d3dx9-27-x64.cab). Are these important or can I delete them?
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Unnecessary files in My Downloads folder?
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, Jul 21 2010 06:57 PM
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Posted 21 July 2010 - 10:29 PM
.cab are compressed files. It looks like those are from some DirectX download/update.
They should be safe to delete.
They should be safe to delete.
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