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Thanks, but no. Win 8/10/11 has two levels of user-account authority, both called "Administrator" (to confuse the enemy). The easy one is accessible through the settings menus; the real one is hidden behind the command prompt (i.e., DOS, "the operating system that never died"), and even accessing the secret Administrator account makes you jump through some hoops that would make Gary Kildall (who invented DOS) blanch. It's my cross to bear, but I'll figure it out. Eventually.You've probably already tried this, but this sounds like an Anti-Virus issue. Have you tried completely disabling any AV software (including Windows Defender real-time protection) before copying the file again?
Edit: I thought I might have found a classic Windows "work-around;" a FDU-accessible option to activate a Developer Mode that promised, "Install apps from any source, including loose files." Sounded like just the ticket. My 'acs.exe' is just such a loose file and I expected that I could install in in my AC folder. Bzzzt! Curses, foiled again.
So I bit the bullet and did the right thing: uninstalled the whole blasted game and reinstalled it from Steam. Took a lot less time than I had wasted by trying to avoid the obvious solution. When will I ever learn....
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