Unable to even get started with Selenium

[Tony Dev]

I'm trying to migrate an old WatiN application over to Selenium

I've installed Selenium WebDriver 3.141 using NuGet in Visual Studio and written a simple program to connect to a website.

Unfortunately whether I use ChromeDriver or InternetExplorerDriver, it fails on the first line: driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(myURL);

The error message is: 

OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException : The HTTP request to the remote WebDriver server for URL http://localhost:56519/session timed out after 60 seconds.
  ----> System.Net.WebException : The operation has timed out

I'm running on windows 7x64. I've disabled Bitdefender antivirus and turned off my firewall. I can't think of what else to try.

[Nandeeswar Porla]

Hi Tony,

     Try your Url link including with https:// ( Example:  "https://www.google.com")

Regards

Nandeeswar P N