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 your EVTX file to another format, you need Microsoft Event Viewer or other System software.
Convert a file to EVTX
To convert other file formats to the "Log File" file type, you need software like Microsoft Event Viewer or a similar tool.
About EVTX files
A .EVTX file is a Windows XML Event Log created by modern versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system. These files serve as the critical "black box" for system administrators, recording security audits, application crashes, and system warnings in a proprietary binary XML structure. While essential for forensics and troubleshooting, the .EVTX format presents significant challenges: it is a binary file, meaning it is completely unreadable in standard text editors like Notepad++ or VS Code. Viewing these logs natively requires the specific Windows Event Viewer component, locking you into the Windows ecosystem and making analysis on macOS or Linux difficult. Furthermore, searching through gigabytes of raw binary logs is slow and cumbersome. To unlock this data for analysis, the best workflow is conversion. For spreadsheet analysis and filtering, convert .EVTX to CSV or XLSX to use in Microsoft Excel. For ingestion into SIEM tools like Splunk or the ELK Stack, convert to JSON or plain XML. For static reporting or evidence sharing, convert to PDF.
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 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 EVTX, try Microsoft Event Viewer or another comparable tool in the "System Event Logging" 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.