# Not able to do proceed with automation of windows application getting webdriver exception

**URL:** <https://forum.katalon.com/t/not-able-to-do-proceed-with-automation-of-windows-application-getting-webdriver-exception/38506>\
**Category:** Desktop Testing\
**Tags:** desktop, windows, katalon-studio\
**Created:** [January 10, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/not-able-to-do-proceed-with-automation-of-windows-application-getting-webdriver-exception/38506 "2020-01-10T13:47:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![sundaravel.l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@sundaravel.l](https://forum.katalon.com/u/sundaravel.l)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/not-able-to-do-proceed-with-automation-of-windows-application-getting-webdriver-exception/38506/1 "2020-01-10T13:47:47Z")

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Hi Team,

After launching the windows application via katalon studio recorder option, throwing the below error while selecting the refresh screen option from the recorder.  
Only the 1st application loading screen is visible and once the application is in the dashboard screen - it is not captured and while selecting refresh screen getting the below error and not able to proceed further.

Kindly share your comments.

**Error Details:**  
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: An unknown error occurred in the remote end while processing the command. (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)  
Command duration or timeout: 0 milliseconds  
Build info: version: ‘3.141.59’, revision: ‘e82be7d358’, time: ‘2018-11-14T08:25:53’  
System info: host: ‘PSILENL064’, ip: ‘192.168.100.246’, os.name: ‘Windows 10’, os.arch: ‘amd64’, os.version: ‘10.0’, java.version: ‘1.8.0\_181’  
Driver info: io.appium.java\_client.windows.WindowsDriver  
Capabilities {app: C:\Users\sundaravel.l\AppDa…, javascriptEnabled: true, platform: WINDOWS, platformName: WINDOWS}  
Session ID: B0A8CD09-F441-4848-9BFD-945E612A0A50  
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)  
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)  
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)  
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)  
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:214)  
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:166)  
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.JsonHttpResponseCodec.reconstructValue(JsonHttpResponseCodec.java:40)  
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.AbstractHttpResponseCodec.decode(AbstractHttpResponseCodec.java:80)  
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.AbstractHttpResponseCodec.decode(AbstractHttpResponseCodec.java:44)  
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:158)  
at io.appium.java\_client.remote.AppiumCommandExecutor.execute(AppiumCommandExecutor.java:239)  
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:552)  
at io.appium.java\_client.DefaultGenericMobileDriver.execute(DefaultGenericMobileDriver.java:46)  
at io.appium.java\_client.AppiumDriver.execute(AppiumDriver.java:1)  
at io.appium.java\_client.windows.WindowsDriver.execute(WindowsDriver.java:1)  
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.getScreenshotAs(RemoteWebDriver.java:295)  
at com.kms.katalon.composer.windows.spy.WindowsInspectorController.captureScreenshot(WindowsInspectorController.java:82)  
at com.kms.katalon.composer.windows.dialog.WindowsRecorderDialog$3.captureImage(WindowsRecorderDialog.java:656)  
at com.kms.katalon.composer.windows.dialog.WindowsRecorderDialog$3.run(WindowsRecorderDialog.java:623)  
at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:119)

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**Author:** ![Souma.Dutta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Souma.Dutta](https://forum.katalon.com/u/Souma.Dutta)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/not-able-to-do-proceed-with-automation-of-windows-application-getting-webdriver-exception/38506/2 "2020-02-13T10:02:20Z")

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Hi.  
Facing same issue. Have u got any solution?

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**Author:** ![sundaravel.l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@sundaravel.l](https://forum.katalon.com/u/sundaravel.l)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 10:38am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/not-able-to-do-proceed-with-automation-of-windows-application-getting-webdriver-exception/38506/3 "2020-02-13T10:38:24Z")

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No, it is not resolved.

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**Author:** ![wfskatalon01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@wfskatalon01](https://forum.katalon.com/u/wfskatalon01)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 1:25am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/not-able-to-do-proceed-with-automation-of-windows-application-getting-webdriver-exception/38506/4 "2020-04-28T01:25:30Z")

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I faced the issue and after I add the library folder in configuration / under desire capabilities

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/original/2X/7/76a80131818798ecaa49976d99f85f53c5484309.png)