crash on launch when folder not on desktop... Need Help please

[FLASH]

Hi all, i have Touhou 6, 7, 7.5 and 14 , all english patched and V-Synch patched. i use Windows 7.

My PC died recently but i had all the touhou games backed up on external hard drive (the whole folder for all of them)

so, i re-downloaded them on my new PC, into C:/programs/  which is where they default installed to originally...

but they refuse to launch! when i start them with applocale, it says a bunch of japanese text and something about a ThXX.cfg file (where XX is the game number).

but here is the weird thing, i tried moving the folders to my desktop, and if i do that now the work... 

WHY? can anyone explain this to me?? i'd rather not have my desktop clugged with all those Touhou game folders, and i'd be a huge pain to re-install all the games and re-download and install all the patches for all of them... T_T

[Romantique Tp]

With UAC enabled, files placed into certain folders will automatically be flagged as read-only. You're getting this error because ZUN's games before Double Spoiler always try to write to the .cfg file on startup. To fix this, remove the read-only flags from your .cfg and score.dat files and turn UAC off.

[shockdude]

I don't recommend turning off UAC. A safer and more powerful method is this:
Go to your programs folder, right-click the game folder, and select "Properties".
Click the Security tab and click "Edit".
Under "Group or user names", click "Users". Under "Permissions for Users", check "Full Control".
Click OK and OK.
Repeat for all other games.

[Romantique Tp]

UAC has its uses in an office/business environment, but for a home user with good sense and a decent antivirus it does very little, to the point where it arguably does more harm than good. The only reason you keep it on in a home computer is if you share your computer with kids or an older person (in these cases it's probably better to just create a second account without admin access), or if you're new to Windows.

It's true that some Windows tweak guides advise you to keep it on, but this is because their target audience is curious semi-clueless users who are prone to breaking things.

[FLASH]

it worked nice!
(i preferred to just change the user authorization rather than mess with UAC but nice to know i can try that too in case of future problems)
thanks both for the answer 

[shockdude]

Glad to hear you got it resolved.

UAC has its uses in an office/business environment, but for a home user with good sense and a decent antivirus it does very little, to the point where it arguably does more harm than good. The only reason you keep it on in a home computer is if you share your computer with kids or an older person (in these cases it's probably better to just create a second account without admin access), or if you're new to Windows.

It's true that some Windows tweak guides advise you to keep it on, but this is because their target audience is curious semi-clueless users who are prone to breaking things.

I keep UAC on simply because I want to know which programs are requesting admin privileges and which aren't. If a program needs admin privileges, I want to know why. The more information I have, the better.