It should be simple enough to extract the contents of Windows CAB files and repack them to ZIP archive.
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Conversion of cab file format to zip file format beta
Search for cab to zip converter or software able to handle these file types.
Found 2 different conversion types using the same filename extensions.
Conversion cab to zip type 1:
Convert from Windows Cabinet Compressed Archive to WinZIP Compressed ZIP archive.
Microsoft Windows software 
- convert cab to zip on Windows
WinRAR
A file compression and archive utility. Along with WinZip and 7-Zip is one of the most common compression programs for Windows. Its native format is as the name implies RAR and uses rar file extension.
WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.
WinRAR is also able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives. It consistently makes smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs. WinRAR offers a graphic interactive interface utilizing mouse and menus as well as the command line interface.
File extension | File type (from-> to) | Convert | Open | Save | Edit | Create | Import | Export | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Convert from cab file | Windows Cabinet Compressed Archive | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
to zip file | WinZIP Compressed ZIP archive | No | Yes | Yes | zip editor | Yes | No | No | Yes |
The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned cab to zip. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.
7-zip
A free file archiver developed by Igor Pavlov featuring higher compression ratios with LZMA and LZMA2 compression.
It is mainly available for Windows platform (for Mac and Linux are available command line tools) and is the primary program to handle 7z archives. However, also supports various compression file formats.
Supported formats:
Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z
ALZip
ALZip is compression utility that supports about 40 archive file formats. ALzip can open ALZ, ACE, EGG, RAR, ZIP etc.. Also can open disk images, such as ISO and BIN, LCD. ALZip is able to recovery passwords in protected ZIP archives.
IZArc
IZArc is free compression utility for Microsoft Windows. IZArc supports variety of archive formats such as 7-zip, ARJ, ZIP, RAR, CAB, ACE, PAK etc. Also supports popular CD/DVD images such as ISO, BIN, NRG, IMG, MDF etc. IZArc also can convert archives and CD/DVD images. IZARC can repair damaged archives, creates self-extract archivers. IZArc is translate to many languages.
ZipZag
A compression utility for Windows, ZipZag offers very large support of compression formats. ZipZag opens standard Windows/DOS archives, Linux/Unix/Mac archives, skins, themes, collections as well as games and applications data files.
FilZip
FilZip will compress and decompress ACE, ARC, ARJ, BH, XXE, ZOO, ZIP, and others. FilZip includes a simple six-option context menu interface to unarchive files. Easily selected options include extracting in place, to a new directory, e-mailing or testing it. FilZip includes the many archive options expected in current tools.
Apple macOS / Mac OS X software 
- convert cab to zip on OS X
StuffIt for Mac
StuffIt for Mac is archive utility that is able to create ZIP and SITX archives as well as extract 25 different formats including StuffIt, Zip, RAR and Tar.
StuffIt Deluxe for Mac
StuffIt Deluxe for Mac is utility used to backup, share, archive, encrypt and shrink photos, music, and other documents. It supports variety of archive and compression file formats.
Linux/Unix software 
- convert cab to zip on Linux
Xarchiver
Xarchiver is a front-end application for various command line archiving applications for Linux and BSD operating systems. Xarchiver is default archiving application in Xfce and LXDE GUIs.
Conversion cab to zip type 2:
Convert from Installation File For Windows Mobile to WinZIP Compressed ZIP archive.
Microsoft Windows software - convert cab to zip on Windows
WinZip
A very popular shareware archiver for Microsoft Windows. The first release of WinZip was in 1991. WinZip supports ZIP, ARJ, ARC, LHA, BZ2 and RAR archive formats. ZIP archives can be encrypted by the 128- and 256-bit key AES encryption.
The developer of WinZip was acquired by Corel in 2006 and first version for Mac appeared in 2010.
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