Fixing the “Selenium is not installed or properly configured”

When you click Run WhatsApp BOT, you might see this message:

This means Excel cannot find VBA Selenium. In almost every case it is because the Selenium setup was not fully completed.

Already set up VBA Selenium but still get the error? #

Work through the steps below in order. Stop as soon as the error is gone.

Step 1: Reinstall SeleniumBasic as Administrator #

Installing it normally is often not enough. It needs to be installed as administrator.

1. Close Excel completely.
2. Download SeleniumBasic again here: SeleniumBasic v2.0.9.0.
3. Right click the downloaded installer and choose “Run as administrator”. Let it finish.
4. Open the WhatsApp Blaster file again and click Run WhatsApp BOT.

Step 2: Register Selenium manually #

If reinstalling did not help, you can register the Selenium file by hand.

1. Press the Windows key, type cmd, then right click Command Prompt and choose “Run as administrator”.
2. Copy the line below, paste it into the black window, and press Enter:

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\regasm.exe /codebase "C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Local\SeleniumBasic\Selenium.dll"

When it works you will see “Types registered successfully”:

Now open WhatsApp Blaster and try again. Still no luck? Go to Step 3.

Step 3: Turn on .NET Framework 3.5 #

On Windows 11 the .NET Framework 3.5 is often switched off by default, and Selenium needs it to run.

1. Press the Windows key and type Turn Windows features on or off, then open it.
2. Tick the box for “.NET Framework 3.5 (includes .NET 2.0 and 3.0)”.
3. Click OK and let Windows install it. Restart your PC if it asks you to.

4. Open WhatsApp Blaster and click Run WhatsApp BOT. The error should now be gone.