Minecraft .exe

[Wyes]

Help me Escapist, you're my only hope;

A couple of weeks ago I discovered something very unsettling; Minecraft would no longer run on my computer. Trying to run the .exe does precisely nothing, no sounds, no errors, no nothing. I've tried re-downloading the .exe, deleting all the game files, completely reinstalling Java, but nothing seems to work.

Naturally, I want to play the 1.8 update, so any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[lacktheknack]

Wat.

Umm, did you try running it in Safe mode? That usually helps figure out what went wrong.

If all else fails, there's an in-browser version (of Beta, not classic).

 

[Arafiro]

Try downloading the linux version of minecraft (which is a .jar) from the main site and then creating a .bat file in notepad with this:

@echo off

"c:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe" -jar C:\SomeFolders\minecraft.jar

Use the correct filepaths for both java.exe and wherever you put your minecraft.jar (which can be anywhere).
Name it something like MinecraftLaunch.bat and try running it.

 

[Wyes]

Try downloading the linux version of minecraft (which is a .jar) from the main site and then creating a .bat file in notepad with this:

@echo off

"c:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe" -jar C:\SomeFolders\minecraft.jar

Use the correct filepaths for both java.exe and wherever you put your minecraft.jar (which can be anywhere).
Name it something like MinecraftLaunch.bat and try running it.

Success! This appears to have done the trick, now to reimport my worlds and saves... thank you!

 

[imnot]

Try downloading the linux version of minecraft (which is a .jar) from the main site and then creating a .bat file in notepad with this:

@echo off

"c:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe" -jar C:\SomeFolders\minecraft.jar

Use the correct filepaths for both java.exe and wherever you put your minecraft.jar (which can be anywhere).
Name it something like MinecraftLaunch.bat and try running it.

lol, at first I thought that was the system 32 deleting thing XD
Of course I wouldnt have told OP!

 

[phYnc]

Help me Escapist, you're my only hope;

A couple of weeks ago I discovered something very unsettling; Minecraft would no longer run on my computer. Trying to run the .exe does precisely nothing, no sounds, no errors, no nothing. I've tried re-downloading the .exe, deleting all the game files, completely reinstalling Java, but nothing seems to work.

Naturally, I want to play the 1.8 update, so any help is greatly appreciated.

Could be a new anti-virus using sand boxing or preventing it?

 

[Arafiro]

Try downloading the linux version of minecraft (which is a .jar) from the main site and then creating a .bat file in notepad with this:

@echo off

"c:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe" -jar C:\SomeFolders\minecraft.jar

Use the correct filepaths for both java.exe and wherever you put your minecraft.jar (which can be anywhere).
Name it something like MinecraftLaunch.bat and try running it.

Success! This appears to have done the trick, now to reimport my worlds and saves... thank you!

No problem. I had to do that to force my Minecraft into 64 bit Java as it otherwise refused and tried to open 32 bit. Perhaps the issue you had was similar?

 

[Abedeus]

Minecraft has new launcher, download it.

 

[saucecode]

use the .jar...?
maybe.
Not sure if it will help tho.

 

[Wyes]

No problem. I had to do that to force my Minecraft into 64 bit Java as it otherwise refused and tried to open 32 bit. Perhaps the issue you had was similar?

I'm still using 32 bit for everything, so I don't think that was the problem. That said, I have no idea what the problem was.