title: IE Browser using Selenium Webdriver: "The driver executable is a directory"
body: <p>I am getting the following error while trying to launch an IE browser using <a href="http://docs.seleniumhq.org/projects/webdriver/" rel="nofollow">Selenium Webdriver</a>. What seems to be the problem?</p>
  
  <pre><code>Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: The driver executable is a directory: D:\Bhavesh\Bhavesh_Data\Study\Selenium\IEDriverServer_x64_2.45.0
      at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkState(Preconditions.java:197)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.checkExecutable(DriverService.java:119)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.findExecutable(DriverService.java:112)
      at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriverService.access$1(InternetExplorerDriverService.java:1)
      at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriverService$Builder.build(InternetExplorerDriverService.java:247)
      at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.setupService(InternetExplorerDriver.java:251)
      at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.&lt;init&gt;(InternetExplorerDriver.java:172)
      at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.&lt;init&gt;(InternetExplorerDriver.java:146)
      at first.IEDriver.main(IEDriver.java:11)
  </code></pre>