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So, today i decided to clean up my computer and during that i deleted the .minecraft file and re install it. so i deleted the folder and i went to the site to redownload it but it wont work... all that it downloads is the launcher. when i launch it, the normal white screen thing.

Bootstrap (v5)
Current time is May 2, 2014 7:43:58 PM
System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Windows XP'
System.getProperty('os.version') == '5.1'
System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'x86'
System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.7.0_21'
System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Oracle Corporation'
System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '32'

FATAL ERROR: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: address
at java.net.InetAddress.init(Native Method)
at java.net.InetAddress.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.provider.SeedGenerator$1.run(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.provider.SeedGenerator$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.security.provider.SeedGenerator.getSystemEntropy(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.provider.SecureRandom$SeederHolder.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.provider.SecureRandom.engineNextBytes(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureRandom.nextBytes(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureRandom.next(Unknown Source)
at java.util.Random.nextInt(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl.engineInit(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl$DefaultSSLContext.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.security.Provider$Service.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(Unknown Source)
at javax.net.ssl.SSLContext.getInstance(Unknown Source)
at javax.net.ssl.SSLContext.getDefault(Unknown Source)
at javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.getDefault(Unknown Source)
at javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.getDefaultSSLSocketFactory(Unknown Source)
at javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.&lt;init&gt;(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.Handler.openConnection(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URL.openConnection(Unknown Source)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Downloader.getConnection(Downloader.java:151)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Downloader.run(Downloader.java:46)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.execute(Bootstrap.java:92)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:381)


Please fix the error and restart.

this is what shows up on the white screen

There is a problem with your Java installation. You are mixing incompatible versions of the Java libraries.

I'd recommend uninstalling any Java's you have (using control panel add/remove programs), then cleaning any remnants from C:\Program Files\java (or whereever it was installed), then installing the latest version of Java.