Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your EVTX file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert EVTX to another file type
To convert EVTX event logs to another format, you need Event Viewer or other System software.
Convert a file to EVTX
To convert other file formats to the "Windows Event Log" file type, you need software like Event Viewer or a similar tool.
About EVTX files
The .EVTX file stores system, security, and application logs for Microsoft Windows. Introduced in Windows Vista, it replaces the older EVT format using a proprietary binary XML structure known as BinXML. You can natively open these files using the built-in Event Viewer utility. However, the proprietary binary nature of .EVTX makes it notoriously difficult to work with outside of a Windows environment. You cannot open it in a standard text editor like Notepad without seeing garbled text. Forensics analysts and system administrators often struggle to share these logs with macOS or Linux users, and parsing them natively requires custom PowerShell scripts or specialized forensic software. To analyze the data in a spreadsheet, convert .EVTX to CSV. For programmatic parsing or ingestion into log management systems, convert to XML or JSON. For simple text sharing, convert to TXT.
Convert.Guru analyzes your EVTX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert EVTX file to CSV, TXT, XML, JSON, LOG, SYS, DLL, EXE, DRV, VXD, 386 or COM, you can use Event Viewer or similar software from the "System Event Log Storage" 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 EVTX, try Event Viewer or another comparable tool in the "System Event Log Storage" category.
The EVTX Converter Story
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 EVTX converter.