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Convert Windows Registry binary "hive" into XML

Synopsis

​ hivexml [-dk] hivefile > output.xml

Description

This program converts a single Windows Registry binary "hive" file into a self-describing XML format.

Options

-d

Enable lots of debug messages.  If you find a Registry file that this program cannot parse, please enable this option and post the complete output and the Registry file in your bug report.

-k

Keep going even if we find errors in the Registry file.  This skips over any parts of the Registry that we cannot read.

-u

Use heuristics to tolerate certain levels of corruption within hives.

This is unsafe but may allow to export/merge valid keys/values in an othewise corrupted hive.

See Also

hivex(3), ​hivexget(1), ​hivexsh(1), ​hivexregedit(1), ​virt-win-reg(1), ​guestfs(3), <http://libguestfs.org/>, ​virt-cat(1), ​virt-edit(1).

Authors

Richard W.M. Jones (rjones at redhat dot com)

Info

2026-10-03 hivex-1.3.24 Windows Registry