Doing both of these things have fixed the issue. Thank you.

0.007 2015-11-04 18:59:44; Factorio 0.11.22 (Build 14011, win32)
0.007 Operating system: Windows 8
0.007 Read data path: C:/Users/John/Desktop/Factorio/data
0.007 Write data path: C:/Users/John/AppData/Roaming/Factorio
0.008 Binaries path: C:/Users/John/Desktop/Factorio/bin
0.182 Initialised ...