diff --git a/es-app/assets/Windows_Portable_DO_NOT_PLACE_YOUR_THEMES_HERE.txt b/es-app/assets/Windows_Portable_DO_NOT_PLACE_YOUR_THEMES_HERE.txt
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+Place manually downloaded or modified themes into .emulationstation\themes\ and not into this directory