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Trying to figure out why Minecraft 1.6 will not launch into game.
System Information
Microsoft Windows XP
Professional
Version 2002
Service Pack 3

Dell Dimension 8400
Intel ®
Pentium ® 4 CPU 3.20 GHz
3.19 GHz, 3.25 GB of RAM


This is what is displayed in the Minecraft Launcher in the Development Console.
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Launcher 1.2.1 (through bootstrap 5) started on windows...
Current time is Aug 3, 2013 1:00:11 PM
System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Windows 2000'
System.getProperty('os.version') == '5.0'
System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'x86'
System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.7.0_25'
System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Oracle Corporation'
System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '32'
Delta time to compare resources: 879 ms
Download job 'Resources' skipped as there are no files to download
Job 'Resources' finished successfully
Loaded 1 profile(s); selected 'DragonJSpider'
Refreshing auth...
Logging in with access token
Getting syncinfo for selected version
Queueing library & version downloads
Download job 'Version & Libraries' started (8 threads, 19 files)
Finished downloading C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\org\apache\commons\commons-lang3\3.1\commons-lang3-3.1.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\com\google\code\gson\gson\2.2.2\gson-2.2.2.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jinput\jinput-platform\2.0.5\jinput-platform-2.0.5-natives-windows.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\net\sf\jopt-simple\jopt-simple\4.5\jopt-simple-4.5.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\librarylwjglopenal\20100824\librarylwjglopenal-20100824.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\commons-io\commons-io\2.4\commons-io-2.4.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl_util\2.9.0\lwjgl_util-2.9.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\org\bouncycastle\bcprov-jdk15on\1.47\bcprov-jdk15on-1.47.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\codecjorbis\20101023\codecjorbis-20101023.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jinput\jinput\2.0.5\jinput-2.0.5.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\com\google\guava\guava\14.0\guava-14.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\libraryjavasound\20101123\libraryjavasound-20101123.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\soundsystem\20120107\soundsystem-20120107.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\codecwav\20101023\codecwav-20101023.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl-platform\2.9.0\lwjgl-platform-2.9.0-natives-windows.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl\2.9.0\lwjgl-2.9.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\argo\argo\2.25_fixed\argo-2.25_fixed.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\versions\1.6.2\1.6.2.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Finished downloading C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jutils\jutils\1.0.0\jutils-1.0.0.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Used own copy as it matched etag
Job 'Version & Libraries' finished successfully
Launching game
Looking for old natives to clean up...
Unpacking natives to C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\versions\1.6.2\1.6.2-natives-3019805177635
Launching in C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft
Running C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\javaw.exe -XX:HeapDumpPath=MojangTricksIntelDriversForPerformance_javaw.exe_minecraft.exe.heapdump -Xmx1G -Djava.library.path=C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\versions\1.6.2\1.6.2-natives-3019805177635 -cp C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\net\sf\jopt-simple\jopt-simple\4.5\jopt-simple-4.5.jar;C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\codecjorbis\20101023\codecjorbis-20101023.jar;C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\codecwav\20101023\codecwav-20101023.jar;C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\libraryjavasound\20101123\libraryjavasound-20101123.jar;C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\librarylwjglopenal\20100824\librarylwjglopenal-20100824.jar;C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\com\paulscode\soundsystem\20120107\soundsystem-20120107.jar;C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\argo\argo\2.25_fixed\argo-2.25_fixed.jar;C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\org\bouncycastle\bcprov-jdk15on\1.47\bcprov-jdk15on-1.47.jar;C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\com\google\guava\guava\14.0\guava-14.0.jar;C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\org\apache\commons\commons-lang3\3.1\commons-lang3-3.1.jar;C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\commons-io\commons-io\2.4\commons-io-2.4.jar;C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jinput\jinput\2.0.5\jinput-2.0.5.jar;C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\net\java\jutils\jutils\1.0.0\jutils-1.0.0.jar;C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\com\google\code\gson\gson\2.2.2\gson-2.2.2.jar;C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl\2.9.0\lwjgl-2.9.0.jar;C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\libraries\org\lwjgl\lwjgl\lwjgl_util\2.9.0\lwjgl_util-2.9.0.jar;C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\versions\1.6.2\1.6.2.jar net.minecraft.client.main.Main --username DragonJSpider --session token:d782fb5d24654704844562ac9ac0305a:ca31a199f9bd4a6a8988db5cd5b4fcd6 --version 1.6.2 --gameDir C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft --assetsDir C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\assets
Couldn't launch game
java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\javaw.exe" (in directory "C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft"): CreateProcess error=3, The system cannot find the path specified
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(Unknown Source)
at net.minecraft.launcher.process.JavaProcessLauncher.start(JavaProcessLauncher.java:25)
at net.minecraft.launcher.GameLauncher.launchGame(GameLauncher.java:278)
at net.minecraft.launcher.GameLauncher.onDownloadJobFinished(GameLauncher.java:499)
at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.download.DownloadJob.popAndDownload(DownloadJob.java:112)
at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.download.DownloadJob.access$000(DownloadJob.java:10)
at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.download.DownloadJob$1.run(DownloadJob.java:84)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=3, The system cannot find the path specified
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(Unknown Source)
... 13 more

Deleting C:\Documents and Settings\Nicotianne\Application Data\.minecraft\versions\1.6.2\1.6.2-natives-3019805177635
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