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I've had a pirate version and have since bought the game. I deleted all the files in .minecraft and downloaded the official minecraft.exe. When I run it nothing happens. I've tried running it from a bat file (javaw -Xmx3072m -Xms2048m -jar "C:\Users\Mom\Documents\minecraft\minecraft.exe"). The java icon runs then it just hangs. No files are installed. I've also tried running the minecraft.exe from the .minecraft folder with no luck. I've checked my "hosts" file to see if there are any lines that refer to minecraft etc. I don't know what's blocking the progarm. I can run Tekkit however but I would like to run the most recent version of Minecraft vanilla.

delete the .minecraft folder minecraft.exe will make a new one

Quote from DogsRNice

delete the .minecraft folder minecraft.exe will make a new one

No that didn't work. It didn't even create a new .minecraft folder

Here is a copy of the first few lines of my java log....

java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\minecraft\.minecraft\lastlogin (The system can
not find the file specified)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
at net.minecraft.LoginForm.readUsername(LoginForm.java:110)
at net.minecraft.LoginForm.<init>(LoginForm.java:55)
at net.minecraft.LauncherFrame.<init>(LauncherFrame.java:23)
at net.minecraft.LauncherFrame.main(LauncherFrame.java:167)
at net.minecraft.MinecraftLauncher.main(MinecraftLauncher.java:13)
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException: HDC for c
omponent
at sun.java2d.loops.TransformHelper.Transform(Native Method)
at sun.java2d.pipe.DrawImage.renderImageXform(Unknown Source)
at sun.java2d.pipe.DrawImage.transformImage(Unknown Source)
at sun.java2d.pipe.DrawImage.scaleImage(Unknown Source)