When I uninstalled a dll from the c:\windows\assembly I got the message Access is deniend

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I have a ABC.dll registered in the c:\windows\Assembly folder, I needed to uninstall it and when tried this I got a message 'Access is denied'
I went then to the folder where the dll resides under the c:\windows\assembly\GAC_32\ABC\12345\
where 12345 is the public key token, I tried to delete it using the DEL, or ERASE dos commands with no success.
The questions is, how to know the processes that are using this dll so I can kill them then uninstall it from the assembly folder

Posted 10-Jul-14 6:04am

Tarek Elqusi

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Jul-14 12:18pm

Not enough information. Did you do it under the elevated privileges?
If you simply want to clean up your system, use one of the registry cleaners, they work better then the Windows Control Panel applet.
—SA

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Maciej Los · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-10T06:41:00

Solution 1

Uninstall it from GAC and you'll be able to remove it ;)

Follow the instruction under this link: How to Uninstall an Assembly from the GAC[^] and use second method. Do not forget to run comand prompt as an admin (right click and 'Run as admin')!

Posted 10-Jul-14 6:41am

Maciej Los