When I click on minecraft.jar in the 'bin' section I hear the error message noise from Windows, but no error window pops up. One used to pop-up (I've forgotten what it said), but now it only makes the noise. I have deleted the file and reinstalled it, I have forced updated minecraft, and I have even entirely deleted minecraft and reinstalled it, only backing-up my saves and texture packs. Even before putting those saves and texture packs back into the .minecraft folder, I tried clicking minecraft.jar and still the same thing. It isn't WinRaR either, because I can still open that up.
What I think the problem might be, is that Windows is not entirely actually deleting the files off my hard drive, so when I go to reinstall minecraft, it just brings up the old files, instead of downloading new ones, but I am not entirely sure of this. My reason for thinking this: after I have deleted .minecraft and emptied the recycle bin, and then download minecraft, on the Firefox 'Downloads' window, it will show "Minecraft.exe (1)" "Minecraft.exe (2)" "Minecraft.exe (3)" "Minecraft.exe (4)". Even when I go into My Documents>Downloads and delete these things, it still shows up like that. It's very odd.
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When I click on minecraft.jar in the 'bin' section I hear the error message noise from Windows, but no error window pops up.
*facepalm*
This is exactly what you would expect to happen when jar files are associated with Java, since this minecraft.jar is not the one you are supposed to run. It doesn't have a "main" entry point and so cannot be double click launched.
If you are trying to launch minecraft, you need to use the launcher minecraft.exe or minecraft.jar (which is not the one in bin).
If you are trying to open it with an archive program, then you need to either navigate to it from that program using File->Open, or you need to right click and use the "Open With >" option, and some programs may support opening it by dragging it into them.
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When I click on minecraft.jar in the 'bin' section I hear the error message noise from Windows, but no error window pops up. One used to pop-up (I've forgotten what it said), but now it only makes the noise. I have deleted the file and reinstalled it, I have forced updated minecraft, and I have even entirely deleted minecraft and reinstalled it, only backing-up my saves and texture packs. Even before putting those saves and texture packs back into the .minecraft folder, I tried clicking minecraft.jar and still the same thing. It isn't WinRaR either, because I can still open that up.
What I think the problem might be, is that Windows is not entirely actually deleting the files off my hard drive, so when I go to reinstall minecraft, it just brings up the old files, instead of downloading new ones, but I am not entirely sure of this. My reason for thinking this: after I have deleted .minecraft and emptied the recycle bin, and then download minecraft, on the Firefox 'Downloads' window, it will show "Minecraft.exe (1)" "Minecraft.exe (2)" "Minecraft.exe (3)" "Minecraft.exe (4)". Even when I go into My Documents>Downloads and delete these things, it still shows up like that. It's very odd.
Please help.
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*facepalm*
This is exactly what you would expect to happen when jar files are associated with Java, since this minecraft.jar is not the one you are supposed to run. It doesn't have a "main" entry point and so cannot be double click launched.
If you are trying to launch minecraft, you need to use the launcher minecraft.exe or minecraft.jar (which is not the one in bin).
If you are trying to open it with an archive program, then you need to either navigate to it from that program using File->Open, or you need to right click and use the "Open With >" option, and some programs may support opening it by dragging it into them.