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Description

**Describe the bug**
The documentation makes a couple of assumptions under "Install by VCPKG in Windows", namely the installation location of vcpkg.
When the walkthrough is followed step by step like I did, you end up cloning vcpkg to the parent directory of the cloned drogon source code. Not "C:\dev" as the documentation assumes.

Also for my project I can't assume to make system-wide changes, as it is to be used by other people, nor can I assume what drives they got or what they're called so Ive had to alter the installation process a little here and there. Like using a relative path for the -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to make sure that everything is contained within the project folder.

**To Reproduce**
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
1. Follow the documentation from the perspective of a Windows user.

**Expected behavior**
No exact expectations. Its just a matter of clarification. I found myself searching through my C drive for quite a while, since I assumed that the installation of vcpkg had made said "C:\dev" folder.

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- OS: Windows 11
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