Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your POL file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert POL to another file type
To convert POL files to another format, you need Microsoft Windows or other System software.
Convert a file to POL
To convert other file formats to the "Windows Group Policy Settings" file type, you need software like Microsoft Windows or a similar tool.
About POL files
The .POL file extension is primarily associated with Windows Group Policy files. System administrators use these files to define security settings and apply registry modifications across a Windows network. Secondary uses include sailboat performance polar data for navigation software, numerical equation files for mathematical modeling, security policy archives for IBM systems, and 3D airport scenery polygons for flight simulators. For Windows policies, users rely on the built-in Local Group Policy Editor. Sailboat data is managed by MaxSea TimeZero or Adrena. Mathematical equations use Polymath Software, and flight simulator scenery is handled by X-Plane. Users often need to convert .POL files to audit security settings, document configurations, or share navigation data with different programs. However, this is often difficult. A Windows .POL file is a proprietary, binary file that stores registry keys. It is not human-readable, requires a Windows environment, and lacks cross-platform support. To extract readable data from a Windows .POL file, you should target TXT or CSV using native administrative command-line tools. Sailboat polar data is also often converted to CSV for spreadsheet analysis. Because this file format is heavily fragmented and proprietary, standard online converters usually fail. Often only the original software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format (like the ZIP archive format used by IBM Tivoli), viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your POL file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert POL file to SYS, DLL, EXE, DRV, VXD, 386, COM, BAT, CMD, SCR, PIF or LNK, you can use Microsoft Windows or similar software from the "System Configuration 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 POL, try Microsoft Windows or another comparable tool in the "System Configuration Storage" category.
The POL 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 POL converter.