Text-string gathering tools are mainly used to quickly identify possible functions or messages used by the program. It is not always true that every text string is used by the program. Program flow still depends on conditions set in the program. However, the string locations in the file can be used as markers that the analyst can trace back:

• SysInternals Suite's strings: This is a command-line tool for Windows that shows the list of text strings in any type of file.
• BinText: This is a GUI-based Windows tool that can display the ASCII and Unicode text strings for any given file.