Can I delete my PC *.cab files?

I'm running out of space on my hard drive and noticed that a nice piece of memory is used for my cab files.  Some are installation of iTunes files, some files from Disk Cache in my i386 directory.

Any thoughts?

How much is "a nice piece"?  Deleting files because you are low on hard disk space is a futile effort.  Buy a larger hard drive.  They are very cheap these days, and most come with a free software that allows you to clone your existing to the new disk drive.  If you can't at least temporarily to install a second drive in your computer, you can buy a cheap connected by USB (or eSATA if your computer supports) external hard drive enclosure.  When you are done with the cloning operation, you can use your old drive in the external box for backup.

With regard to your questions:

Regarding the files related to iTunes, you can, as suggested by NoMo, ask an Apple forum.  Or you can identify exactly where these files are located, and what makes you think they are installation of iTunes files.  I have the remains of 7 or 8 latest installations of iTunes on my old XP machine, but no iTunes don't cab files.  Most probably, you can remove safely iTunes install files.  If it turns out that the files that you delete actually required by iTunes for execution, you can always download and install the latest version.

On the other hand, deleting files from the i386 is a bad idea, unless you have a genuine Windows XP installation CD.  If you're dead set on the removal of the files in this directory, I strongly suggest that you burn all the directory on a CD first.  Sometimes the files in c:\i386 (or C:\Windows\ServicePackFile\i386) are needed to replace a damaged operating system file.  It doesn't happen very often, but if this happens and you have deleted the files, you will be very unhappy.

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