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I have already searched for help on this and this does not look good. Some people have reported any efforts did nothing and simply could not play Minecraft. One person said they gave up and tried again a month later and the game just worked again without even knowing what was changed.

So now I'm worried. Maybe it's my computer saying I play too damn much Minecraft.

I made sure I had the latest Java update, which is Java 7 update 45. Uninstalled and reinstalled. Used clean-up tools on my hard drive, I'm about to check for viruses. However I run a very lite and clean machine and keep it updated, no toolbars or nothing, but I have extra scanners and run NotScripts, Adblock Plus and Web of Trust.

After that, I tried installing Java 6 after uninstalling 7, reason is one person said that worked, but it didn't.
I have heard of the trick of making a Minecraft.bat file on the desktop but I didn't try cause some said it never opens or gives them another error.

I didn't install any mods or install any new programs, JVM did say Minecraft was out of memory before the crash, so I increased the JVM memory to 2G, that didn't help. I even tried lower than 1G cause one person said that worked or them. Still nothing.
It did also crash the other night, but I was able to start again.

My system specifications are:

AMD 3-350 1.6GHz
8GB RAM
Windows 7 (64-bit)

Browser: Goggle Chrome
Plug-ins: Adblock Plus, NotScripts and Web of Trust

Real time AV: Avast Free
Firewall: COMODO Firewall
Scanners: SUPERAnitSpyware and MalwareBytes

Here is my Java debug log, exactly as it appears in the "javadebug" file":

java version "1.6.0_45"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_45-b06)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.45-b01, mixed mode)

Oh... That's on 1.6 still. Lemme try that again. I'm going to uninstall, reinstall the latest Java update again. Check for updates on my other applications, run some more cleaning operations, do a cold boot, run a couple scans, and try to restart the game.
This will take a few hours at least so I'm that's why I'm leaving it at here, but in the mean time, please give any suggestions if you have any.
Thanks!

Quote from WTH_Not_Again

I haven't played MC in 10 days and didn't even launch it today before I updated to 1.7.2, so I don't know if the error was there before the update.

Anyway, after trying many things, here's what I did, AND IT WORKED!!!

Download JavaRa:
http://download.cnet...4-75450738.html

I already had it from a previous Java related issue, and it does a great job of COMPLETELY removing Java, which other programs don't.
Can't remember if it needs unpacking or installing, but once it's all ready, launch it.

1) Click REMOVE JAVA RUNTIME
2) Ignore the "Uninstaller" bit and CLICK NEXT
3) CLICK PERFORM REMOVAL ROUTINE
4) When it says it's done, CLICK NEXT
5) CLICK JAVA MANUAL DOWNLOAD and select the right one for your system (it's a different file than the one you get when you go directly to the site for some weird reason, at least when you use Chrome anyway)
6) When it's installed, CLICK NEXT & CLOSE
7) Launch Minecraft!

Hopefully this works for you too. Good luck.

Thanks. I tried it. I haven't gotten down to trying to launch Minecraft yet, I have to redo a few more scans. I allowed my firewall warnings for the install to work. It installed two other programs with out my permission and opened a tab to a site in my browser, which I'm surprised it even was allowed to do that. Luckily my scanners caught two malicious items. So I wouldn't recommend that download. Usually stuff from cnet is pretty trustworthy but I might have to report that program for spyware.

It said it removed 770 files, but it didn't seen to uninstall Java either. During the manual download, it said the program already existed and if I wanted to overwrite it anyways. So I had everything recently installed quarantined and removed.
I did go back and reinstall Java 7 offline, I even downloaded a new instance of the Minecraft launcher.
After all that mess, it seems to be working now. I would be stumped if it didn't.
I even went as far as installing an update to my video driver. I'm not sure it it worked, I think it did.

But I cleared all temp, cache, cookies, registry errors, scanned, reinstalled and updated. I figured something had to have worked. Still not sure what exactly did the trick, but for certain, Java is very temperamental.