Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In computing, CAB is the Microsoft Windows native compressed archive format. Usually using at ActiveX's Downloading or Windows Installer Service. Table of contents 1 File extension 2 MIME-Type 3 Related Terms 4 External Links File extension .cab MIME-Type application/x-cab-compressed Related Terms ZIP 7-Zip RAR LHA DGCA GCA External Links 7-Zip is an LGPL licensed utility that supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.