What is Setup CD-ROM Viewer?

Setup CD-ROM Viewer is multi CAB files viewer which is specialized for extracting files. For Microsoft OS and applications, files to setup are stored in separated CAB archive files in CD-ROM. However, it is inconvenient to use usual archive programs when you want to see file list stored in setup CD-ROM, or want to get specific single file in your mind from setup CD-ROM since you have to open each CAB archive file to collect infromation. You can do them with ease by Setup CD-ROM Viewer. Setup CD-ROM Viewer can of course open single specified CAB archive file, too.

Figure: This figure indicates how it looks like when Setup CD-ROM Viewer opens Microsoft Office XP CD-ROM. You can know what kind of files the CD-ROM includes since all the files in CAB archive files in the CD-ROM are shown in single list, and you can easily find and extract certain file.

Which setup CD-ROM you can use?

Microsoft Corporation provides setup CD-ROM with many CAB archive files included.

CAB archive files are used with the following setup CD-ROMs, for instance. The setup CD-ROMs marked with * have files to setup in many CAB archives and it is very hard to find single file in your mind from those CAB archive files.

CAB files in Windows 2000/XP
Windows 95/98/Me *
Microsoft Plus! 95/98 *
Internet Explorer 4/5/5.5/6 *
CAB files in Office 2000/XP
Office 2003 *
Windows NT option Pack *
Microsoft IME 98 *
Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack *

What's New?

Version 2.7 has the following new features and improvements compared with the previous version.

Enhanced search feature. Search result will be now shown in new child window.
Fixed the problem that error message is shown when nothing is selected and try showing property dialog of the item.

Download

File name	Size	Date	Description
cdvw27e.exe	729 KB	2/20/2005	Setup CD-ROM Viewer Version 2.6 for Windows 95/98/Me/NT4.0/2000/XP, Freeware. Confirmed to work correctly on Windows Vista. Requires Internet Explorer 4.01 or later. Requires Windows Installer 2.0 if you run older OS than Windows XP. Windows Installer 2.0 Redistributable for Windows 95, 98, and ME Windows Installer 2.0 Redistributable for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000