If you opened the .exe in notepad and pasted this
You have corrupted the exe file. You will need to download a new copy as merely saving it in notepad can destroy the binary data inside. This quote was referring to a project file name project.godot of which I’m guessing you weren’t able to create a project, thus no project file.
Maybe your GPU does not support vulkan as Godot would like and following these directions would help but you need an earlier stage to be opengl compatible.
If you are familiar with the command prompt you can open your freshly downloaded .exe with the options --rendering-driver opengl3. If not, make a shortcut to the .exe nearby, then edit it’s properties and paste --rendering-driver opengl3 to the end of it’s “Target” field.
upgrading to the experimental 4.4 dev 3 should do the same rendering device fix automatically, so as a last resort maybe download that newest version.