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The converter easily converts your PSW file to various formats - free and online. No Word or extra software needed.
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other System formats to PSW with high quality output.
The .psw extension primarily refers to the Windows Password Reset Disk file, specifically named userkey.psw. This system file acts as a digital safety net, generated by Microsoft Windows to allow users to reset their local account passwords if forgotten. It contains encrypted security keys and is not intended to be opened or edited manually; doing so may corrupt the key and render it useless.
However, .psw is also associated with legacy Pocket Word documents created on Windows CE or Pocket PC devices. These outdated mobile documents are often incompatible with modern word processors like Microsoft Word. Users typically encounter friction because standard office suites no longer natively support the format, leaving valuable archived notes or drafts inaccessible. A third, less common use is for encrypted password vaults from older versions of AceBIT Password Depot.
For Pocket Word files, the best solution is converting to DOCX for editing or PDF for long-term archiving. For Password Reset files, no conversion is possible or necessary - they must be used via the Windows User Accounts control panel.
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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 PSW converter.