Extract text from event logs (EVT)
To convert EVT logs to another format, you need Microsoft Event Viewer or other System software.
To convert other file formats to the "Event Log File" file type, you need software like Microsoft Event Viewer or a similar tool.
The .EVT file extension primarily denotes a legacy Windows Event Log file. Before Windows Vista, Microsoft used this proprietary binary format to record application, security, and system events. Today, the format is also heavily utilized by industrial hardware - such as Schneider Electric protective relays, Trimble seismic recorders, and SMA Solar inverters - to dump error and audit logs.
Opening an .EVT file is frustrating. Because it is a proprietary binary blob, it is not plain text. If you try to open it in a standard text editor, you will only see unreadable gibberish. Legacy Windows files strictly require the Microsoft Event Viewer, while industrial hardware logs are locked behind highly specific, expensive vendor software like MiCOM S1 Studio or Elipse E3. This proprietary lock-in makes cross-platform analysis, compliance auditing, and central log management incredibly difficult.
To actually use this data, you must parse and convert the file. For compliance reporting and SIEM ingestion, convert to XML or JSON. For manual spreadsheet analysis, convert to CSV. For quick, universal reading, convert to TXT.
Convert.Guru analyzes your EVT file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted EVTX, EVTBIN, DTL, EVENT, TXT, DAT, CFG, DOCX, TMP, ZIP, ENC, JPG and DB files.
If you want to convert EVT file to EVTX, CSV, SYS, DLL, EXE, DRV, VXD, 386, COM, BAT, CMD or SCR, you can use Microsoft Event Viewer or similar software from the "System Event Logging" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MSI, EXE, REG, MST, LNK, CAB, CAT, DRV, INF, SYS, MSU or DLL files to EVT, try Microsoft Event Viewer or another comparable tool in the "System Event Logging" 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 EVT converter.