Extract text from weather and configuration files (WX)
To convert WX files to another format, you need PC SOFT WinDev or other Executable software.
To convert other file formats to the "App or Game Data" file type, you need software like PC SOFT WinDev or a similar tool.
The .WX file extension primarily represents two completely different, proprietary formats: a compiled executable application file created by PC SOFT WinDev, or a saved weather scenario file used by Microsoft Flight Simulator. In the PC SOFT ecosystem, a .WX file functions as an application module deployed for Windows environments. In the gaming world, it stores highly specific meteorological parameters - such as wind speed, barometric pressure, and cloud cover - to recreate exact weather states for virtual flights. A rare third use case includes system configuration backups generated by the Wanam Xposed Android framework module.
Users frequently encounter dead ends when trying to open .WX files because they lack the specific parent software. These formats suffer from extreme vendor lock-in. A WinDev .WX file requires the WinDev runtime to execute and is completely incompatible with macOS or Linux. Meanwhile, Microsoft Flight Simulator weather files are encoded specifically for the game engine, making them impossible to open natively in standard spreadsheet or text editor applications without seeing garbled characters.
Because of their hyper-specific purposes, standard conversion is severely limited. You cannot convert a compiled WinDev executable into a typical document like a PDF or a media file like a JPG. Flight Simulator weather files can theoretically be parsed to extract data into a plain TXT or XML format, but this usually requires community-built scripts rather than standard software.
Standard online converters will immediately fail to process a .WX file because they look for common multimedia or document headers. However, convert.guru offers a pragmatic solution. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. While we cannot magically turn an executable into a document, our advanced analysis tools allow you to safely inspect the raw hex data or extract unencrypted text strings from the .WX file, revealing its internal structure and helping you determine its true origin.
Convert.Guru analyzes your WX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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If you want to convert WX file to BAK, BACKUP, OLD, TMP, TEMP, ARC, ZIP, TAR, GZ, 7Z, RAR or ISO, you can use PC SOFT WinDev or similar software from the "Executable or Game Data" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SNAPSHOT, OLD, IMG, RESTORE, ISO, COPY, VMDK, TMP, VHD, BAK, ARCHIVE or BACKUP files to WX, try PC SOFT WinDev or another comparable tool in the "Executable or Game Data" category.
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 WX converter.