Vista permission denied programdata

Question

I'm trying to add a tool to Visual Studio and it is a DOS command line utility. The command line args require a path to a config file. It seems that no matter where I try to store this config file, the command line utility can not get permission to open the file. I tried C:\ProgramData\Utilities\JavascriptLint\ C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Utilities\JavaScriptLint\ C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Utilities\JavaScriptLint\ I tried the program folder. I tried to set security to allow everyone access, but still not good. I read about the symbolic links and junctions problems so I use CMD dir /Al to find the real folders. I'm tearing what littl hair I have left trying to make this simple command utility work in Visual Studio. It shouldn't be this hard!

Thanks!