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Yes, .minecraft in the appdata folder is completely deleted. After the backstory; I then double clicked Minecraft.exe, and the only thing that happened is one of those lovely error-notepads generated on my desktop.
Error is attached.

Backstory:
The mess started and ended yesterday; starting with some obnoxious crashes, and ending with not even being able to run a brand new minecraft.exe. Issues started randomly, meaning I had not changed anything directly beforehand. I hadn't updated anything since the start of 1.5. So in that case I figured ill just update Optifine from A1 to the current HD A5, and check to see if Ozo's texture pack have any updates, which it did, so I updated that as well. After checking my games performance now, I realized that it seemingly only worsened. Annoyance started kicking in, and I decided to do a fresh install. I destroyed .minecraft, downloaded Java Standard edition 7 Update 12 JRE 64 bit from http://jdk7.java.net/download.html ,downloaded Minecraft.exe from minecraft.net, and now here we are at this error I'm getting.
Yes, I realized this is the vanilla minecraft only section, and that's because that's all I'm asking about.

#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x000007f9bf5f4ca1, pid=6568, tid=6340
#
# JRE version: 6.0_23-b05
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (19.0-b09 mixed mode windows-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [ntdll.dll+0x4ca1]
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
#
---------------  T H R E A D  ---------------
Current thread (0x000000000716f000):  JavaThread "Image Fetcher 0" daemon [_thread_in_Java, id=6340, stack(0x000000000ab20000,0x000000000ac20000)]
siginfo: ExceptionCode=0xc0000005, reading address 0xffffffffffffffff
Registers:
RAX=0x000000000ac18001, RBX=0x0000000000000000, RCX=0x000000000ac1e558, RDX=0x000000000ac1e4c0
RSP=0x000000000ac1e3f8, RBP=0x000007f9a43bede0, RSI=0x0000000000000023, RDI=0x0000000000000003
R8=0x000007ffffe88000, R9=0x000000000ac1e400, R10=0x0000000000000000, R11=0x000000000ac1eb50
R12=0x0000000000000050, R13=0x0000000000000000, R14=0x000007f9a43bede0, R15=0x0000000000000000
RIP=0x000007f9bf5f4ca1, EFLAGS=0x0000000000010202
Register to memory mapping:
RAX=0x000000000ac18001
0x000000000ac18001 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x000000000716f000
"Image Fetcher 0" daemon prio=8 tid=0x000000000716f000 nid=0x18c4 runnable [0x000000000ac1e000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
RBX=0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000 is pointing to unknown location
RCX=0x000000000ac1e558
0x000000000ac1e558 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x000000000716f000
"Image Fetcher 0" daemon prio=8 tid=0x000000000716f000 nid=0x18c4 runnable [0x000000000ac1e000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
RDX=0x000000000ac1e4c0
0x000000000ac1e4c0 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x000000000716f000
"Image Fetcher 0" daemon prio=8 tid=0x000000000716f000 nid=0x18c4 runnable [0x000000000ac1e000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
RSP=0x000000000ac1e3f8
0x000000000ac1e3f8 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x000000000716f000
"Image Fetcher 0" daemon prio=8 tid=0x000000000716f000 nid=0x18c4 runnable [0x000000000ac1e000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
RBP=0x000007f9a43bede0
0x000007f9a43bede0 is pointing to unknown location
RSI=0x0000000000000023
0x0000000000000023 is pointing to unknown location
RDI=0x0000000000000003
0x0000000000000003 is pointing to unknown location
R8 =0x000007ffffe88000
0x000007ffffe88000 is pointing to unknown location
R9 =0x000000000ac1e400
0x000000000ac1e400 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x000000000716f000
"Image Fetcher 0" daemon prio=8 tid=0x000000000716f000 nid=0x18c4 runnable [0x000000000ac1e000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
R10=0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000 is pointing to unknown location
R11=0x000000000ac1eb50
0x000000000ac1eb50 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x000000000716f000
"Image Fetcher 0" daemon prio=8 tid=0x000000000716f000 nid=0x18c4 runnable [0x000000000ac1e000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
R12=0x0000000000000050
0x0000000000000050 is pointing to unknown location
R13=0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000 is pointing to unknown location
R14=0x000007f9a43bede0
0x000007f9a43bede0 is pointing to unknown location
R15=0x0000000000000000
0x0000000000000000 is pointing to unknown location

Top of Stack: (sp=0x000000000ac1e3f8)
0x000000000ac1e3f8:   0000000000000202 000007f9bf653ab1
0x000000000ac1e408:   0000000000000050 00000000072cab30
0x000000000ac1e418:   0000000000000540 0000000000000000
0x000000000ac1e428:   000000000ac1edc8 00000000071554d0
0x000000000ac1e438:   0000000000000510 00000000072cab30
0x000000000ac1e448:   000007f9be1413ba 0000000000000510
0x000000000ac1e458:   00000000072cab30 0000000000000063
0x000000000ac1e468:   000000000ac18000 0000000000000510
0x000000000ac1e478:   0000000000000003 0000000007281a30
0x000000000ac1e488:   00000000072cab30 0000000006478f58
0x000000000ac1e498:   0000000000000050 0000000006478f58
0x000000000ac1e4a8:   000000006d93c21a 0000000000000000
0x000000000ac1e4b8:   0000000000000023 000000000ac20000
0x000000000ac1e4c8:   0000000000000003 0000000000000000
0x000000000ac1e4d8:   000000000ac1e6c0 000000000ac1e6f0
0x000000000ac1e4e8:   000000000ac20000 000007f9a43bede0
Instructions: (pc=0x000007f9bf5f4ca1)
0x000007f9bf5f4c91:   d9 b9 00 01 00 00 c7 81 02 01 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x000007f9bf5f4ca1:   0f 29 b1 00 02 00 00 0f 29 b9 10 02 00 00 44 0f

Stack: [0x000000000ab20000,0x000000000ac20000],  sp=0x000000000ac1e3f8,  free space=1016k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
C  [ntdll.dll+0x4ca1]
Java frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code)
v  blob 0x000000000234707f
j  java.util.HashMap.getEntry(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/util/HashMap$Entry;+51
j  java.util.LinkedHashMap.get(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/Object;+2
j  java.net.InetAddress$Cache.put(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/net/InetAddress$Cache;+72
j  java.net.InetAddress.cacheAddress(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;Z)V+23
j  java.net.InetAddress.getAddressFromNameService(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/net/InetAddress;)Ljava/lang/Object;+210
j  java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName0(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/net/InetAddress;Z)[Ljava/net/InetAddress;+37
j  java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/net/InetAddress;)[Ljava/net/InetAddress;+325
j  java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(Ljava/lang/String;)[Ljava/net/InetAddress;+2
j  java.net.InetAddress.getByName(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/net/InetAddress;+1
j  java.net.InetSocketAddress.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;I)V+67
j  sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(Ljava/lang/String;I)Ljava/net/Socket;+137
j  sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Ljava/lang/String;I)V+4
j  sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer()V+157
j  sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.&lt;init&gt;(Ljava/net/URL;Ljava/net/Proxy;I)V+125
j  sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(Ljava/net/URL;Ljava/net/Proxy;IZ)Lsun/net/www/http/HttpClient;+131
j  sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(Ljava/net/URL;Ljava/net/Proxy;I)Lsun/net/www/http/HttpClient;+4
j  sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(Ljava/net/URL;Ljava/net/Proxy;I)Lsun/net/www/http/HttpClient;+3
j  sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect()V+236
j  sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect()V+1
j  sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream()Ljava/io/InputStream;+187
j  sun.awt.image.URLImageSource.getDecoder()Lsun/awt/image/ImageDecoder;+12
j  sun.awt.image.InputStreamImageSource.doFetch()V+30
j  sun.awt.image.ImageFetcher.fetchloop()V+33
j  sun.awt.image.ImageFetcher.run()V+5
v  ~StubRoutines::call_stub
---------------  P R O C E S S  ---------------
Java Threads: ( => current thread )
=>0x000000000716f000 JavaThread "Image Fetcher 0" daemon [_thread_in_Java, id=6340, stack(0x000000000ab20000,0x000000000ac20000)]
  0x00000000073e9000 JavaThread "Thread-4" [_thread_blocked, id=6344, stack(0x000000000ad20000,0x000000000ae20000)]
  0x0000000006cdd800 JavaThread "AWT-EventQueue-0" [_thread_blocked, id=1164, stack(0x000000000ac20000,0x000000000ad20000)]
  0x0000000006d7c800 JavaThread "AWT-Windows" daemon [_thread_in_native, id=5776, stack(0x0000000007fc0000,0x00000000080c0000)]
  0x0000000006cf8800 JavaThread "AWT-Shutdown" [_thread_blocked, id=3076, stack(0x0000000007ec0000,0x0000000007fc0000)]
  0x0000000006cf1800 JavaThread "Java2D Disposer" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=5592, stack(0x0000000007dc0000,0x0000000007ec0000)]
  0x0000000006410800 JavaThread "Low Memory Detector" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=6184, stack(0x00000000069b0000,0x0000000006ab0000)]
  0x000000000640e000 JavaThread "CompilerThread1" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=2560, stack(0x00000000068b0000,0x00000000069b0000)]
  0x0000000006405800 JavaThread "CompilerThread0" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=6120, stack(0x00000000067b0000,0x00000000068b0000)]
  0x0000000006402800 JavaThread "Attach Listener" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=6472, stack(0x00000000066b0000,0x00000000067b0000)]
  0x00000000063fb800 JavaThread "Signal Dispatcher" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=6304, stack(0x00000000065b0000,0x00000000066b0000)]
  0x00000000022f8800 JavaThread "Finalizer" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=5448, stack(0x00000000062b0000,0x00000000063b0000)]
  0x00000000022f5000 JavaThread "Reference Handler" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=6392, stack(0x00000000061b0000,0x00000000062b0000)]
  0x000000000034e000 JavaThread "main" [_thread_in_Java, id=5760, stack(0x0000000002110000,0x0000000002210000)]
Other Threads:
  0x00000000022e6000 VMThread [stack: 0x00000000060b0000,0x00000000061b0000] [id=2796]
  0x0000000006423800 WatcherThread [stack: 0x0000000006ab0000,0x0000000006bb0000] [id=5868]
VM state:not at safepoint (normal execution)
VM Mutex/Monitor currently owned by a thread: None
Heap
PSYoungGen	  total 152896K, used 28838K [0x00000000eaab0000, 0x00000000f5550000, 0x0000000100000000)
  eden space 131072K, 22% used [0x00000000eaab0000,0x00000000ec6d9b28,0x00000000f2ab0000)
  from space 21824K, 0% used [0x00000000f4000000,0x00000000f4000000,0x00000000f5550000)
  to   space 21824K, 0% used [0x00000000f2ab0000,0x00000000f2ab0000,0x00000000f4000000)
PSOldGen	    total 349568K, used 0K [0x00000000c0000000, 0x00000000d5560000, 0x00000000eaab0000)
  object space 349568K, 0% used [0x00000000c0000000,0x00000000c0000000,0x00000000d5560000)
PSPermGen	   total 21248K, used 13874K [0x00000000bae00000, 0x00000000bc2c0000, 0x00000000c0000000)
  object space 21248K, 65% used [0x00000000bae00000,0x00000000bbb8c830,0x00000000bc2c0000)
Dynamic libraries:
0x0000000000400000 - 0x000000000042e000  C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\javaw.exe
0x000007f9bf5f0000 - 0x000007f9bf7ae000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
0x000007f9bee00000 - 0x000007f9bef36000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.DLL
0x000007f9bc680000 - 0x000007f9bc773000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNELBASE.dll
0x000007f9b6520000 - 0x000007f9b65bf000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\apphelp.dll
0x000007f9a42f0000 - 0x000007f9a4770000  C:\WINDOWS\AppPatch\AppPatch64\AcLayers.DLL
0x000007f9be140000 - 0x000007f9be1e5000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll
0x000007f9be9d0000 - 0x000007f9beb1c000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
0x000007f9beb30000 - 0x000007f9beb80000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHLWAPI.dll
0x000007f9b5fe0000 - 0x000007f9b5fe3000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\sfc.dll
0x000007f9b8270000 - 0x000007f9b82ed000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WINSPOOL.DRV
0x000007f9beb80000 - 0x000007f9becc0000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\GDI32.dll
0x000007f9b5050000 - 0x000007f9b5060000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\sfc_os.DLL
0x000007f9bb040000 - 0x000007f9bb088000  C:\WINDOWS\AppPatch\AppPatch64\AcGenral.DLL
0x000007f9bc390000 - 0x000007f9bc3bc000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SspiCli.dll
0x000007f9bcb00000 - 0x000007f9bcc7e000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\ole32.dll
0x000007f9bcc80000 - 0x000007f9bdf68000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll
0x000007f9bbbc0000 - 0x000007f9bbbdf000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\USERENV.dll
0x000007f9be8d0000 - 0x000007f9be9ae000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.dll
0x000007f9b42f0000 - 0x000007f9b4307000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\MPR.dll
0x000007f9bf4b0000 - 0x000007f9bf5f0000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
0x000007f9be720000 - 0x000007f9be8d0000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\combase.dll
0x000007f9bcab0000 - 0x000007f9bcaf8000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\sechost.dll
0x000007f9bc500000 - 0x000007f9bc515000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\profapi.dll
0x000007f9bf3c0000 - 0x000007f9bf3f9000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\IMM32.DLL
0x000007f9be4a0000 - 0x000007f9be5b5000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSCTF.dll
0x000000006d7f0000 - 0x000000006dee0000  C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\server\jvm.dll
0x000007f9b9610000 - 0x000007f9b9630000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WINMM.dll
0x000007f9b95d0000 - 0x000007f9b9602000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WINMMBASE.dll
0x000000006d760000 - 0x000000006d76e000  C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\verify.dll
0x000000006d3b0000 - 0x000000006d3d7000  C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\java.dll
0x000000006d310000 - 0x000000006d31a000  C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\hpi.dll
0x000007f9bf400000 - 0x000007f9bf407000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\PSAPI.DLL
0x000000006d7b0000 - 0x000000006d7c2000  C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\zip.dll
0x000000006d000000 - 0x000000006d1c3000  C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\awt.dll
0x000007f9b9990000 - 0x000007f9b9bf9000  C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.9200.16384_none_418c2a697189c07f\COMCTL32.dll
0x000007f9ba330000 - 0x000007f9ba351000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DWMAPI.DLL
0x000007f9bb2f0000 - 0x000007f9bb3d3000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\uxtheme.dll
0x0000000180000000 - 0x000000018032e000  C:\Program Files (x86)\Xfire\xfire_toucan64_46105.xll
0x000007f9b5040000 - 0x000007f9b5049000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WSOCK32.dll
0x000007f9b9c00000 - 0x000007f9b9c07000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\MSIMG32.dll
0x000007f9bed20000 - 0x000007f9bede3000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\OLEAUT32.dll
0x000007f9be200000 - 0x000007f9be258000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2_32.dll
0x000007f9beb20000 - 0x000007f9beb29000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\NSI.dll
0x000007f9bb6c0000 - 0x000007f9bb756000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SHCORE.dll
0x000007f9bc420000 - 0x000007f9bc42a000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CRYPTBASE.dll
0x000007f9bc3c0000 - 0x000007f9bc41c000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\bcryptPrimitives.dll
0x000000006d2a0000 - 0x000000006d306000  C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\fontmanager.dll
0x000007f9a40f0000 - 0x000007f9a42f0000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\d3d9.dll
0x000007f9b9c10000 - 0x000007f9b9c19000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\VERSION.dll
0x000007f9997c0000 - 0x000007f99a8f7000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\nvd3dumx.dll
0x000007f9bbbe0000 - 0x000007f9bbc23000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\powrprof.dll
0x000000000a0e0000 - 0x000000000a219000  C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\3D Vision\nvSCPAPI64.dll
0x000007f9bdf70000 - 0x000007f9be140000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\SETUPAPI.dll
0x000007f9bc5d0000 - 0x000007f9bc61f000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\CFGMGR32.dll
0x000007f9bca10000 - 0x000007f9bca32000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\DEVOBJ.dll
0x000007f9b82f0000 - 0x000007f9b85c6000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\nvapi64.dll
0x000007f9bc620000 - 0x000007f9bc675000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\WINTRUST.dll
0x000007f9bc780000 - 0x000007f9bc957000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\CRYPT32.dll
0x000007f9bc5b0000 - 0x000007f9bc5c6000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSASN1.dll
0x000007f9ba030000 - 0x000007f9ba0a4000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\dxgi.dll
0x000000006d600000 - 0x000000006d617000  C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\net.dll
0x000007f9bbe30000 - 0x000007f9bbe8c000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\mswsock.dll
0x000000006d620000 - 0x000000006d62b000  C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\nio.dll
0x000007f9bae90000 - 0x000007f9baea6000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\NLAapi.dll
0x000007f9acbf0000 - 0x000007f9acc04000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\napinsp.dll
0x000007f9acc10000 - 0x000007f9acc28000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\pnrpnsp.dll
0x000007f9bbc70000 - 0x000007f9bbd08000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DNSAPI.dll
0x000007f9acc30000 - 0x000007f9acc42000  C:\WINDOWS\System32\winrnr.dll
0x000007f9b76e0000 - 0x000007f9b770a000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\IPHLPAPI.DLL
0x000007f9b7640000 - 0x000007f9b764a000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WINNSI.DLL
0x000007f9bbe90000 - 0x000007f9bbeaa000  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CRYPTSP.dll
0x000007f9bba30000 - 0x000007f9bba79000  C:\WINDOWS\system32\rsaenh.dll
0x000007f9b7390000 - 0x000007f9b73ef000  C:\WINDOWS\System32\fwpuclnt.dll
0x000007f9b51b0000 - 0x000007f9b51b8000  C:\Windows\System32\rasadhlp.dll
VM Arguments:
jvm_args: -Xms512m -Xmx1024m
java_command: C:\Users\Michael\Desktop\Minecraft.exe
Launcher Type: SUN_STANDARD
Environment Variables:
PATH=C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer;;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\iCLS Client\;C:\Program Files\Intel\iCLS Client\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Shared;C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin
USERNAME=Michael
OS=Windows_NT
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=Intel64 Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9, GenuineIntel

---------------  S Y S T E M  ---------------
OS: Windows NT 6.2 Build 9200
CPU:total 4 (4 cores per cpu, 1 threads per core) family 6 model 58 stepping 9, cmov, cx8, fxsr, mmx, sse, sse2, sse3, ssse3, sse4.1, sse4.2, popcnt
Memory: 4k page, physical 16738620k(14429020k free), swap 33515836k(30262732k free)
vm_info: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (19.0-b09) for windows-amd64 JRE (1.6.0_23-b05), built on Nov 13 2010 02:43:42 by "java_re" with MS VC++ 8.0 (VS2005)
time: Thu Mar 21 01:20:22 2013
elapsed time: 0 seconds

I notice the error thinks I have windows NT. That might be the biggest joke I've ever heard. I actually have Windows 8 pro 64 bit. CPU looks accurate, 16 gigs of ram, NVidia GeForce 660. I've been playing minecraft for months. on this computer.

Thank you for the fast reply. But of course, that's not happy news at all. Seeing as I take care of my system extensively, I cannot comprehend why this has happened. I checked out what the refresh windows 8 feature is, and basically I may as well just reformat my hard drive and reinstall windows.

^{Indeed. out of curiosity, how did you know that was my issue? is it stated somewhere in the error?}

Stack: [0x000000000ab20000,0x000000000ac20000], sp=0x000000000ac1e3f8, free space=1016k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
C [ntdll.dll+0x4ca1]
Java frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code)
v blob 0x000000000234707f
j java.util.HashMap.getEntry(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/util/HashMap$Entry;+51
j java.util.LinkedHashMap.get(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/Object;+2
j java.net.InetAddress$Cache.put(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/net/InetAddress$Cache;+72
j java.net.InetAddress.cacheAddress(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;Z)V+23
j java.net.InetAddress.getAddressFromNameService(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/net/InetAddress;)Ljava/lang/Object;+210
j java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName0(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/net/InetAddress;Z)[Ljava/net/InetAddress;+37
j java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/net/InetAddress;)[Ljava/net/InetAddress;+325
j java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(Ljava/lang/String;)[Ljava/net/InetAddress;+2
j java.net.InetAddress.getByName(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/net/InetAddress;+1
j java.net.InetSocketAddress.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;I)V+67
j sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(Ljava/lang/String;I)Ljava/net/Socket;+137

In general I'd say that this is not a good sign. It's not really related to Minecraft per se, but only to the launcher doing some HTTP downloads (for example, to put up the news). Where it crashes is at the top, where it is trying to access a piece of memory for a basic data structure. So, it looks like corruption of some kind, either memory or possibly disk. I'd consider running your PC's system diagnostics for memory thoroughly.

Other interesting things, you said you download Java 7, but this is from Java 6. The Win NT info in the dump could happen if you are running minecraft.exe in compatibility mode (in which case the OS would be lying to minecraft.exe as part of being compatible)

I had just reformatted and reinstalled windows 7 a few months ago. I spent daysss on days reinstalling. Transferring data from a back up server over a slow network, downloading like 250 gigs from steam and origin and blizzard and other sites which house all the programs I use. and then reorganizing my program files and default directories, and desktop icon placement, and system settings, and DRIVERS. If anyone can offer me advice to fix this issue, it would be greatly appreciated.

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Other interesting things, you said you download Java 7, but this is from Java 6. The Win NT info in the dump could happen if you are running minecraft.exe in compatibility mode (in which case the OS would be lying to minecraft.exe as part of being compatible)

i did notice that it mentioned the wrong java. in add/remove programs, both java 7 and java 6 are listed, should i uninstall java 6?

im going to uninstall 6, and restart my computer to run a memory diagnostic. brb

Oooookkk....so I ran the memory test aaaaaand no results appear after log in like it said there would be.
also more side notes; steam has been trying and failing to update for like a week now, and for the past few weeks, the start screen of windows 8 will often become unresponsive. it will show that I'm clicking on a panel, but it wont open any apps or the desktop. I have to ctrl alt delete and alt tab and other random stuff to make it start working.

To run thorough memory diagnostics should take more than 15 minutes... I think it takes upwards of an hour to do so on this 16G machine..

but in general it sounds like your computer is sick...

Looks like it is a memory corruption... Some file somewhere has been affected. A bad sector, on the other hand, would basically mean you're screwed. If your warranty's still valid, you might want to back up your disk and try a new computer or windows install. But only in the case that you can't find any way to fix it.

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Looks like it is a memory corruption... Some file somewhere has been affected. A bad sector, on the other hand, would basically mean you're screwed. If your warranty's still valid, you might want to back up your disk and try a new computer or windows install. But only in the case that you can't find any way to fix it.

is it the hard drive or the ram? hard drive right? my system is custom built, I have to check individual warrenties. I bet I have one of the Seagate hard drives which got ruined in the flood.

Bad sectors are hard drives.

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To run thorough memory diagnostics should take more than 15 minutes... I think it takes upwards of an hour to do so on this 16G machine..

but in general it sounds like your computer is sick...

well yes my computer is defnintly Chalked, however it would be great to know the source. I clicked restart now to run a diagnostic, it restarted my pc, and a blue screen came up where it ran 2 passes. I too have 16 gigs of ram.


update: since it came free with windows 8, and because it actually blocked a Trojan in the past, I decided to run a full scan with windows defender. it found VirTool:DOS/Konboot. deleted and running a second scan now.