How to extract an assembly from the GAC?

Question

There is a package I have to deal with which installs assemblies straight into the GAC (e.g. somewhere deep in %windows%/assembly).

How do I exorcise the actual as

Answer 1

Open the Command Prompt and Type :

cd  c:\windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL 

xcopy . C:\GacDump /s /y

This should give the dump of the entire GAC

Enjoy!