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The Global Assembly Cache (GAC) folder in Microsoft Windows stores assemblies common to multiple applications. An assembly are a single, compiled unit that contains information about all the files and resources in a. NET application. The. Net framework comes with pre-installed assemblies. Developers can also place assemblies into the GAC to share them with other applications. Microsoft notes that you don ' t generally need to remove items from the Global Assembly Cache, but it does provide tools fo R cleaning the GAC.

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Click the Windows Search charm and type "Visual Studio." Windows would return a list of search results.

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Locate an entry that had "Command Prompt" in the name. The wording that's see would differ depending on your version of Visual Studio. For example, if your use of Visual Studio, you'll see "Microsoft Visual Studio Command Prompt." Click that item. The "Command Prompt" window would open.

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Type the following in the "Command Prompt" window:

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Gacutil–l

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Press "Enter." Windows would display a list of the assemblies in the Global Assembly Cache.

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Click the "C" icon at the top of the windows and select "Edit" and then "Mark." Hold down your left mouse button and highlight the assembly so you want to remove from the GAC. Click the "C" icon again and select "Edit" and then "Copy." This copies the assembly name to your clipboard.

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Type the following in the window:

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Gacutil–u PASTE ASSEMBLY NAME here

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Click the "C" icon at the top of the windows and select "Edit" then "Mark." Your left mouse button and highlight "Paste assembly name here." Click the "C" icon, select "Edit" and then "Paste" to Paste the name of that copied. For example, if you copied a assembly named "Calculate," the final command might look like this:

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Gacutil/u "calculate,version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, Publickeytoken=0123456789abcdef"

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Press "Enter" to execute the command. Remove other assemblies from the GAC as needed.

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