Permission error when running cerbot ceronly

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My domain is: firsttechfs.co.za

I ran this command: certbot certonly

It produced this output: e[31mThe following error was encountered:
[Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\Certbot\log\letsencrypt.log'
Either run as root, or set --config-dir, --work-dir, and --logs-dir to writeable paths.e[0m

My web server is (include version):

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Server 2019 standard

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know): i dont know

I'm using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel): no

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot): 1.14.0

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Try running that same command from an administrative command prompt.

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Hi

I tried that - same result.

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The error message is pretty clear:

The "fix"/"workaround" is also straightforward:

Have you tried all of that?

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