NIS09 Installation Question

I had to reinstall NIS09 because of issues with the 16.7 update.  Does the Norton Removal Tool and NIS09EN.exe have to be run from the desktop?  I ran them from a directory in my documents folder before I realized that the directions said to download them to the desktop.  It worked OK.  I assume that downloading to the desktop is for convenience and doesn't affect the installation.  Can you confirm this?