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Handle permissions issues better (eg. installed to Program Files and run as non-Admin) #17972

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@DanTup

I've seen quite a few issues in the tracker from people putting Flutter into Program Files and then having issues trying to run it. On Windows, this folder is can't be written to by non-Admins and the first thing Flutter does is try to download things like the Dart SDK. In many cases, it seems that the user is just left with a blank screen and no output.

It shouldn't be difficult to detect this and display a useful message to the user.

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