Yeah bruh, and if you do even a tiny whinsy bit of file management, maybe you don't want random folder cluttering your desktop. Have anything useful to say yet?
C:\Games or whatever your drive letter is. common used folder by many actual PC games, but really the game is a portable program that can be run from almost anywhere. Finding a place to put your portable programs is a must, but ultimately only you know how your folders are set up, and what works for you. Desktop\games works for some or Documents\games. Some even just use Downloads/games.
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This game is a portable application thus is is not installed, and will not be properly made to run from the program directory.
A good way to tell the difference usually is that portable programs usually come without an installer, although they can be installed through one.
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You can not just extract a nonportable application there is to much more going on behind the scenes for that to work.
One reason you can't run it normally without errors.
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If Windows is installed on an
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volume, by default, the 'Program Files' folder can only be modified by members of the 'Administrators' user groups. This can be an issue for programs created for
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. Those operating systems had no file system security, and programs could therefore also store their data in 'Program Files'. Programs that store their data in 'Program Files' will usually not run correctly on
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systems with normal user privileges unless security is lowered for the affected subdirectories.
In effect it is a security issue. By running as administrator you or bypassing said security and in effect giving the program access where access was not intended by Microsoft.