22nd August 2000

When Windows 95 first leaped onto the scene, there were few permanent 'gigabyte' storage devices in production. Because of this, we could only access Windows setup files from a CD (or floppy, if your system was that antiquated). We can make the transition smooth if you'd much rather have those CABs (et al) on your hard drive. NOTE: this should only be done if Windows frequently asks you to insert the system CD. To proceed, copy everything sitting in the system CD's SETUP folder over to a new location (e.g., C:\Windows\Options\Cabs), fire up REGEDIT, then navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Setup. Edit the SourcePath string and enter the new file path (e.g., C:\Windows\Options\Cabs). The next time your OS needs to access any of those files, it'll know where to find them first. This should work fine for all 9x/ME versions of Windows.