REG Converter

Extract text from REG files


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

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

Convert REG to another file type

To convert your REG file to another format, you need Microsoft Registry Editor or other System software.

Convert a file to REG

To convert other file formats to the "Configuration Export File" file type, you need software like Microsoft Registry Editor or a similar tool.


About REG files

A .REG file is a text-based system file used to store, export, and import configuration settings for the Microsoft Windows Registry. These files typically begin with headers like Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 or REGEDIT4 and contain hierarchical keys and values that dictate operating system and software behavior. While they are plain text, .REG files present significant risks and usability challenges: accidentally double-clicking one immediately prompts a system merge, which can corrupt the OS or break applications if the data is malicious or incorrect. Furthermore, email providers often block .REG attachments due to security restrictions, and their specific encoding (often UTF-16 LE) can render them unreadable in standard text editors on non-Windows platforms. To handle these files safely, users should convert them to TXT or PDF for risk-free viewing and archiving. For developers and system administrators looking to parse configuration data programmatically, converting to structured formats like XML or JSON is highly recommended.

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

Users also converted TXT, 2025-REG, BEYBLADE, SYSTEM, ETL, STY, KEY, PS1, PDF, XML, CUBE, ZIP and RWZ files.


FAQ

If you want to convert REG file to XML, BAT, PS1, CMD, ADMX, EXE, INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON or YAML, you can use Microsoft Registry Editor or similar software from the "Windows Registry 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 REG, try Microsoft Registry Editor or another comparable tool in the "Windows Registry Configuration" category.



The REG 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 REG converter.