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strings in Unix and Linux extracts printable strings from a binary file. Is there a version of this for Windows? I couldn't find one.

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Not (AFAIK) built in, but there is one available from SysInternals (live link). The SysInternals strings isn't a straight port of the Unix tool; it was written to find Unicode strings as well as ASCII:

Working on NT and Win2K means that executables and object files will many times have embedded UNICODE strings that you cannot easily see with a standard ASCII strings or grep programs.

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I believe MinGW contains a Windows version of GNU binutils, which in turn contains the strings program. You could try that.

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and of course binutils is included in the Cygwin environment (cygwin.com). it doesn't seem to be included in GnuWin32 and UnxUtils, two other ports projects that provide unix utilities on Windows. – quack quixote Mar 25 '10 at 18:09
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