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Asked: 2026-06-02T10:25:16+00:00

I understand that there are a few ways to create a new Chrome driver

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I understand that there are a few ways to create a new Chrome driver instance, and the way that has worked best for me is passing in its location as a parameter (new ChromeDriver(“path”, capabilities)). However, I am now wanting to move to testing on a VM and I want to run the driver from the default location (C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe as seen on the documentation). I am running Windows 7 and when I run my test (debug and non-debug modes) through VS2010 the error message suggests it is looking in the ‘TestResults\Out’ folder and thus cannot find the driver.
Is this a VS2010 issue or have I done something wrong?

Also apologise if this has been answered before, all the other posts I found thus far have not helped 🙁

EDIT: Or is it necessary to specifically state the Chrome install path on Win7? I guess I could do this, but would prefer things to be a default area just in case a future VM default install path is different.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Its not about where the Chrome is. Its about where chromedriver.exe is.

    You have to set up the webdriver.chrome.driver into your system variables. In Windows (XP):

    Control Panel -> System -> Tab Advanced -> Environment Variables -> New

    Variable name: webdriver.chrome.driver

    Variable value: C:\path\to\chromedriver\chromedriver.exe

    See screen here: http://twio.cz/ae0n

    ChromeDriver can be downloaded here

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