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Recently downloaded Minecraft 1.6.2. The login screen runs, but when I try to log in minecraft crashes on me before the game even starts. Is there any way to fix it? Here is the crash report it gives me whenever I try to log in.

---- Minecraft Crash Report ----
// Quite honestly, I wouldn't worry myself about that.

Time: 7/14/13 9:24 PM
Description: Initializing game

org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel format not accelerated
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.nChoosePixelFormat(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.choosePixelFormat(WindowsPeerInfo.java:52)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createWindow(WindowsDisplay.java:244)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow(Display.java:306)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:848)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:757)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:739)
at ats.O(SourceFile:297)
at ats.d(SourceFile:599)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:101)


A detailed walkthrough of the error, its code path and all known details is as follows:
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-- Head --
Stacktrace:
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.nChoosePixelFormat(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.choosePixelFormat(WindowsPeerInfo.java:52)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createWindow(WindowsDisplay.java:244)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow(Display.java:306)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:848)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:757)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:739)
at ats.O(SourceFile:297)

-- Initialization --
Details:
Stacktrace:
at ats.d(SourceFile:599)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:101)

-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.6.2
Operating System: Windows Vista (x86) version 6.0
Java Version: 1.7.0_25, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode, sharing), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 6110816 bytes (5 MB) / 26808320 bytes (25 MB) up to 518979584 bytes (494 MB)
JVM Flags: 1 total; -Xmx512M
AABB Pool Size: 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) allocated, 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) used
Suspicious classes: No suspicious classes found.
IntCache: cache: 0, tcache: 0, allocated: 0, tallocated: 0
Launched Version: 1.6.2
LWJGL: 2.9.0
OpenGL: ~~ERROR~~ RuntimeException: No OpenGL context found in the current thread.
Is Modded: Probably not. Jar signature remains and client brand is untouched.
Type: Client (map_client.txt)
Resource Pack: Default
Current Language: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null
Profiler Position: N/A (disabled)
Vec3 Pool Size: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null

Same message for me. I tried to update video drivers, run all the previous versions of the game etc... to no avail. My computer is pretty old but I'm pretty sure it would run WoW. Minecraft should not be all that much of a system hog. The laptop I'm having the trouble with is a Dell Inspiron 1501 with ATI xpress 1150 video card.