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Windows 7 – Drag and Drop into Assembly Cache (GAC)

And once again I wasted a good hour trying out all the suggestions for how to fix the Permission denied error on Windows 7 when trying to drag and drop an assembly into the pre-.Net 4.0 assembly cache. I can assure you that starting the Explorer with elevation, from an elevated command shell, etc all does nothing. My user account is a domain account that is also a local administrator. The only thing that helped in the end was adding the domain user to the list of users with permission to Act as part of the operating system.

Allow the user to "Act as part of the operating system".
How to allow an admin to drop assemblies into the GAC using a local security policy
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