hivexml(1)

hivexml1

Convert windows registry binary "hive" into xml

Usage

hivexml [-dk] hivefile > output.xml

Overview

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.

Releases

9 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 8 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7
  3. 8
  4. 9
  5. 10
  6. 11
  7. 12
  8. 13
  9. Arch

-u since Debian 10 (Buster).

Authors

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

From hivex 1.3.24-9 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.