OK, I’m going to do something that I’ve read some people hate in blogs, a tech tip for me and my usage because I keep forgetting it, and it’s getting harder and harder to find using Google, people see to ask about it less and less and it’s going down in the rankings.

How to find the physical path of an assembly from it’s entry in the GAC, turns out it depends.  Also how to shut off the SHFusion shell in Windows Assembly folder

set HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion\DisableCacheViewer [DWORD] to 1

this and other great information about the gac can be found here

Demystifying the .NET Global Assembly Cache