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Hey Guys!

So I recently bought a new windows 8.1 32 bit netbook and when i tried installing the minecraft.exe it told me I needed java, so it directed me to the java website and I downloaded it. Then I tried resuming the minecraft.exe, however, it kept giving me this error which I will display soon.

I have tried redownloading minecraft.exe, java installer, and even system restored my netbook but none of these things work.

One thing to note, I bought two of these netbooks (one for my sister) and it worked perfectly on the other netbook, the launcher worked and I was able to play minecraft.

All in all, everytime i try launching the minecraft.exe it keeps giving me this error:

FATAL ERROR: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at org.apache.logging.log4j.util.PropertiesUtil.<init>(PropertiesUtil.java:71)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.util.PropertiesUtil.<clinit>(PropertiesUtil.java:31)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.status.StatusLogger.<clinit>(StatusLogger.java:48)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:44)
at net.minecraft.launcher.Launcher.<clinit>(Launcher.java:58)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.startLauncher(Bootstrap.java:240)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.execute(Bootstrap.java:124)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:381)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.logging.log4j.util.ProviderUtil.<clinit>(ProviderUtil.java:70)
... 12 more


Please fix the error and restart.

If anyone can fix this I will love you forever!

Thanks!

Haven't seen that one before, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that your windows user name has punctuation in it.

It does! I have an exclamation point after my user name.

Quote from gerbil

Haven't seen that one before, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that your windows user name has punctuation in it.

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When I go to the folder titled, "users" after entering my OS, there is a folder with my name: "Michael!" how can i change it? i only added that exclamation point because i couldn't name my pc and the user the same name Michael.

Refer to this guide: http://hopper.minecraft.net/help/special-characters/

Thanks so much you guys, because of your help I am now able to play Minecraft!!!!!!

Solution:

I just made a new local account, copy and pasted all my files to the new account, deleted it and then reconnected it to my windows live account.
Thanks!!!!