Permission level to a folder

Hi Ashish,

I am unable to give permission to a folder on my laptop, its a company laptop which i am using where i have admin access, please advice on how to go ahead, i was creating a xls folder for TestNg

java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Users\subash_kumar\Documents\xls (Access is denied)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.qtpselenium.util.Xls_Reader.<init>(Xls_Reader.java:32)
at test1.SuiteRunmode.main(SuiteRunmode.java:14)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.qtpselenium.util.Xls_Reader.getRowCount(Xls_Reader.java:44)
at test1.SuiteRunmode.isSuiteRunnable(SuiteRunmode.java:22)
at test1.SuiteRunmode.main(SuiteRunmode.java:16)

thanks and regards,
subash