{"id":80,"date":"2016-10-09T13:22:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T11:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/?p=80"},"modified":"2016-10-09T21:50:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T19:50:18","slug":"system-drive-almost-full-due-to-cab_xxx-files-in-windowstemp-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/system-drive-almost-full-due-to-cab_xxx-files-in-windowstemp-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"System drive almost full due to cab_xxx files in Windows\\Temp directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Symptoms:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deleting the cab_xxx files in the temp directory only results in regeneration every 30min.<br \/>\nIn the &lt;windows&gt;\\Logs\\CBS folder there are\u00a0lots of (large) .log files.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Delete the oldest .log files in the &lt;windows&gt;\\Logs\\CBS folder. It&#8217;s no problem if you want to delete them all.<br \/>\nAfter this,\u00a0in the &lt;windows&gt;\\temp folder, delete every cab_xxx file.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Windows seems to have a problem with compressing\u00a0one or more of the .log files, using\u00a0makecab.exe.<br \/>\nThe makecab program is used to compress CBS log files. When windows scans for updates when booting, it often finds the CBS log files and tries to compress them.<br \/>\nDownloading files to your computer can olsa trigger makecab.exe.<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/forum\/windows_7-files\/cabxxxx-files-found-in-windowstemp-folder\/2e86137e-7e6b-4cb7-9a3c-4ee73f665742?auth=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symptoms: Deleting the cab_xxx files in the temp directory only results in regeneration every 30min. In the &lt;windows&gt;\\Logs\\CBS folder there are\u00a0lots of (large) .log files. Solution: Delete the oldest .log files in the &lt;windows&gt;\\Logs\\CBS folder. It&#8217;s no problem if you want to delete them all. After this,\u00a0in the &lt;windows&gt;\\temp folder, delete every cab_xxx file. Explanation: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/system-drive-almost-full-due-to-cab_xxx-files-in-windowstemp-directory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;System drive almost full due to cab_xxx files in Windows\\Temp directory&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,39,31,17],"tags":[40,43,44,41,42],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-10","category-windows-7-windows-workstation","category-windows-8","category-windows-workstation","tag-cab","tag-drive","tag-full","tag-temp","tag-windows"],"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gillan.be\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}