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first of all i am very sorry if i posted in the wrong section i just clicked the first one in the support section of this topic all the other ones did not make sense to me
so i cannot download Minecraft omg what a bummer right i honestly heard about it from a friend and cannot believe this games real.

anyways this is whats happening i click on the website were it say " download here" then it talkes you to another page and i click"minecraft.exe" to download it but once it finished and i get the installer software i clck RUN on the thing and i get this ERROR

Bootstrap (v5)
Current time is Nov 17, 2013 2:32:12 AM
System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Windows 7'
System.getProperty('os.version') == '6.1'
System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'x86'
System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.6.0_35'
System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Sun Microsystems Inc.'
System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '32'

Looking for update
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws...ncher.pack.lzma
Got reply in: 1352ms
No update found.
Reversing LZMA on C:\Users\mason\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack.lzma to C:\Users\mason\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack
Unpacking C:\Users\mason\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack to C:\Users\mason\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.jar
Cleaning up C:\Users\mason\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack
Starting launcher.
FATAL ERROR: net.minecraft.bootstrap.FatalBootstrapError: Unable to start: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.startLauncher(Bootstrap.java:242)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.execute(Bootstrap.java:124)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:381)


Please fix the error and restart.