Win11 24H2 Update Causing Selenium VBA Scripts to Fail

Question

After updating to Windows 11 24H2, Selenium VBA scripts are unable to open the browser and return runtime error -2146232576 (80131700). The .NET Framework version is 4.8.1. Both the ChromeDriver and Selenium Basic versions are up to date, and they have been reinstalled multiple times. The EdgeDriver also exhibits the same issue.

Answer 1

We had the same problem in our organization. Installing .NET Framework 3.5 using DISM helped. Microsoft disables it by default in the 24H2 build.

dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3 /all

Or like this, if you have offline resources available:

dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3 /all /source:X:\sources\sxs /limitaccess

Answer 2

Hi,

Recently, some users have reported various problems with Office after Windows was updated to 24H2. This situation needs to wait for Microsoft to confirm and fix, it is recommended that you try to restore to the previous Windows version and check if the problem is fixed.

Then you can try to give a feedback to Microsoft about this problem:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/send-feedback-to-microsoft-with-the-feedback-hub-app-f59187f8-8739-22d6-ba93-f66612949332

Your feedback goes directly to our engineers and helps us shape the future of Microsoft products and services for all our users.

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