How to get out of the GAC all the registered assemblies
You know how annoying the GAC shell extension makes it to access the actual assemblies:
Utterly useless.
Of course, you surely know that you can get to those elusive assemblies via the command-line and side-step the shell extension:
But, now you need to go to each assembly folder, then its version, and so the actual assemblies are scattered through various locations.
This one-liner powershell command will get them all out in a folder of your choosing for easy Reflector-ing (create the target before running it):
Get-ChildItem C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL -filter *.dll -recurse | Copy-Item -destination C:\GAC