PS1XML Converter

Extract text from PowerShell display configurations (PS1XML)


Drop or upload your .PS1XML file
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How to extract text from your PS1XML file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PS1XML file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert PS1XML to another file type

To convert PS1XML configurations to another format, you need Windows PowerShell or other Settings software.

Convert a file to PS1XML

To convert other file formats to the "Configuration File" file type, you need software like Windows PowerShell or a similar tool.


About PS1XML files

A .ps1xml file is an XML-based configuration document used by Microsoft Windows PowerShell to define how .NET objects are formatted and displayed in the system console. You can typically open or edit these files using specialized code editors like Microsoft Visual Studio Code or Notepad++. As a heavily specialized administrative file, it is practically useless outside of a Windows environment. The deeply nested XML tags make it verbose and frustrating to read for human users, and modifying it without understanding the strict schema will break your PowerShell display outputs. If you need to review the data, converting it to standard XML, TXT, or JSON is the best approach. However, because this format is a closed, proprietary configuration map built for Microsoft's ecosystem, standard online converters usually fail to process it. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

Convert.Guru analyzes your PS1XML file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.


FAQ

If you want to convert PS1XML file to INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, ENV, PROPERTIES or RC, you can use Windows PowerShell or similar software from the "PowerShell Object Display 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 PS1XML, try Windows PowerShell or another comparable tool in the "PowerShell Object Display Configuration" category.



The PS1XML 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 PS1XML converter.