CAB Extractor

A .cab (Microsoft Cabinet) file bundles several compressed files together, and Windows uses it for drivers, updates and installers. Open a .cab right in your browser, see what is inside, and download the files — or repackage everything into a standard .zip. No expand.exe, no installs, no uploads, no sign-up.

Drop a .cab file here or click to choose — opened on your device, never uploaded

    How to open a CAB file

    Drag your cabinet onto the box above or click it to pick a .cab file. The tool opens the archive in your browser, lists every file with its size, and lets you save any file on its own or choose Download as .zip to repackage the whole cabinet into a standard ZIP that opens natively on Windows and macOS.

    The decoding runs on your own machine: the .cab is handed to libarchive, compiled to WebAssembly and driven from a background worker so the page stays responsive, with nothing to upload and no software to install. It is a quick way to pull one file out of a driver or update cabinet without unpacking it on the command line.

    That worker pulls roughly 1 MB of WebAssembly from this site, and that decoder is the only thing this page ever requests. The honest test takes a few seconds: open your browser’s network panel, drop in a .cab, and read the list. Every request is for the decoder; your archive is not among them.

    No file size limit is imposed here, since there is no upload and no server quota. The .cab, each file lifted out of it, and any ZIP being assembled all sit in memory at once, so what actually caps you is the free RAM on your device rather than a stated number.

    Working with another format? Open a ZIP, a .tar.gz, or convert a RAR or 7z to ZIP.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    How do I open a .cab file?
    To open a .cab cabinet file, drop it onto the box above or click to choose it. The CAB extractor opens the archive in your browser, lists the files inside with their sizes, and lets you download them individually or choose Download as .zip to repackage everything. Nothing is uploaded to a server.
    Can I open a CAB file without Windows?
    Yes. The LK Forge CAB extractor reads Microsoft Cabinet files directly in your browser using a built-in decoder, so you do not need Windows, expand.exe or any other software. It works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
    Is it safe to open my CAB here?
    Yes, the CAB extractor is safe for private files. There is no server side to this tool at all. The .cab is opened by a WebAssembly decoder in a background worker inside your browser, and every extracted file stays in your device’s memory until you download it or press Clear.
    Does the CAB extractor work offline?
    Yes, once the decoder is cached in your browser. The only thing this tool requests is roughly 1 MB of WebAssembly from this site; your cabinet is never among the requests. With the decoder already cached, extraction runs with the network turned off.
    Is there a file size limit?
    No, the CAB extractor imposes no limit of its own, because nothing is uploaded and there is no server quota. What limits you is the free RAM on your device: budget roughly the uncompressed size of the cabinet plus any ZIP being written. Hundreds of megabytes are comfortable on a desktop; an older phone gives out earlier.