title: Selenium chrome failed to start
body: <p>Running the most basic selenium test I can think of.</p>
  
  <pre><code>using System;
  using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
  using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;
  using OpenQA.Selenium;
  using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;
  using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;
  
  namespace UnitTestProject1
  {
      [TestClass]
      public class UnitTest1
      {
          [TestMethod]
          public void TestMethod1()
          {
              String path = @"D:\Selenium Webdrivers\ChromeDriver\";
              IWebDriver driver;
              driver = new ChromeDriver(path);
          }
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am using,</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Chrome Version 52.0.2743.82 m</li>
  <li>ChromeDriver 2.22 </li>
  <li>Selenium WebDriver 2.53.1 </li>
  <li>Selenium WebDriver Support Classes 2.53.1</li>
  <li>win10 (recent upgrade)</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling chrome and removing the user profiles.</p>
  
  <p>the error I get is,</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Test Name:    TestMethod1 Test
    FullName: UnitTestProject1.UnitTest1.TestMethod1 Test
    Source:   c:\Users\user\Documents\Visual Studio
    2013\Projects\UnitTestProject1\UnitTestProject1\UnitTest1.cs : line 13
    Test Outcome: Failed Test Duration:   0:00:01.3305496</p>
    
    <p>Result Message:    Test method UnitTestProject1.UnitTest1.TestMethod1
    threw exception:  System.InvalidOperationException: unknown error:
    chrome failed to start   (Driver info: chromedriver=2.22.397933
    (1cab651507b88dec79b2b2a22d1943c01833cc1b),platform=Windows NT
    10.0.10586 x86_64) Result StackTrace:  at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.UnpackAndThrowOnError(Response
    errorResponse)    at
    OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.Execute(String
    driverCommandToExecute, Dictionary`2 parameters)    at
    OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.StartSession(ICapabilities
    desiredCapabilities)    at
    OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver..ctor(ICommandExecutor
    commandExecutor, ICapabilities desiredCapabilities)    at
    OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeDriver..ctor(String
    chromeDriverDirectory, ChromeOptions options)    at
    OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeDriver..ctor(String
    chromeDriverDirectory)    at UnitTestProject1.UnitTest1.TestMethod1()
    in c:\Users\user\Documents\Visual Studio
    2013\Projects\UnitTestProject1\UnitTestProject1\UnitTest1.cs:line 15</p>
  </blockquote>