Extract text from BGI files
To convert your BGI file to another format, you need BgInfo or other Settings software.
To convert other file formats to the "Configuration File" file type, you need software like BgInfo or a similar tool.
The .BGI extension primarily serves as a configuration container for BgInfo, a popular utility by Microsoft Sysinternals. These files store the precise layout, font settings, and data fields (like IP address, boot time, and CPU usage) that the tool stamps onto your desktop wallpaper. The frustrating part is that .BGI files are proprietary binary configurations; you cannot simply double-click them to view the settings in a text editor like Notepad, nor can you upload them to the web to see the resulting desktop overlay without running the specific executable. Users often mistakenly try to convert these directly to JPG or PNG, not realizing the file contains instructions for generating an image, not the image itself.
Secondary uses include legacy Borland Graphics Interface drivers used by ancient environments like Turbo C++ and BISERA bank payment files. The Borland drivers are obsolete binaries useless outside of DOS emulators (like DOSBox), while the banking files are structured text data often locked into rigid financial systems. For BGInfo files, the best workflow is opening them in the native tool to export the resulting background as a BMP or JPG. For BISERA banking files, parsing the data to CSV or XLSX is the standard requirement for auditing.
Convert.Guru analyzes your BGI file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted JPG, CNS, GUI and HAT files.
If you want to convert BGI file to INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, ENV, PROPERTIES or RC, you can use BgInfo or similar software from the "System Info Configuration" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to BGI, try BgInfo or another comparable tool in the "System Info Configuration" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our BGI converter.