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When I try and play Minecraft on a Windows 7 it says...




Unable to download remote file. Check your internet connection/proxy settings.
FATAL ERROR: net.minecraft.bootstrap.FatalBootstrapError: Unable to download while being forced
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.execute(Bootstrap.java:95)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:381)

Please tell me if this enough info or not, I'm not very good with computers. Only like to play games on them.

Something on your computer is preventing Minecraft / Java from accessing the internet.

Quote from gerbil

Something on your computer is preventing Minecraft / Java from accessing the internet.

Any idea what it is?

Check your firewall settings. It may be blocking connections through Java.

Firewall, internet proxy, ad blocker, web filter, kiddy filter, internet security suite.

You should post the whole dev console though, the problem may be more obvious

Quote from gerbil

Firewall, internet proxy, ad blocker, web filter, kiddy filter, internet security suite.

You should post the whole dev console though, the problem may be more obvious

First of all is the dev console the whole thing in the minecraft launcher?
And the only thing I know of was Norton internet security

The middle tab, the one that says "Development Console". the whole thing.

Norton Internet Security certainly could be causing your problem.

Quote from gerbil

The middle tab, the one that says "Development Console". the whole thing.

Norton Internet Security certainly could be causing your problem.

Ok so first of all I can't get to that button as it won;t get past the initial white screen where it says the fatal error crap
I also have Panda Internet Security, and this Regcurepro on the computer, is that a problem?

Panda Internet Security could be causing the problem, sure. That's the kind of program that can block java or other non browser applications from connecting to the internet.

If you can't get to the development console, then paste all the error text that you can get to. You've pasted the last bit that basically says "it didn't work" but I want to see the first few errors to see how it failed exactly.

Bootstrap (v5)
Current time is May 21, 2014 11:02:03 PM
System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Windows 7'
System.getProperty('os.version') == '6.1'
System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'x86'
System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.7.0_55'
System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Oracle Corporation'
System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '32'
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 2/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 3/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 4/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 5/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 6/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 7/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 8/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 9/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 10/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument: connect
Unable to download remote file. Check your internet connection/proxy settings.
FATAL ERROR: net.minecraft.bootstrap.FatalBootstrapError: Unable to download while being forced
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.execute(Bootstrap.java:95)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:381)

Please fix the error and restart.

Thats all of it, also I tried letting it through the firewall on panda internet, but it still wouldn't go.

Try creating a text file in the same directory as minecraft.exe with this content:

java -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -jar minecraft.exe
PAUSE

Save it as minecraft.bat You'll have to change the save dialog 'selector' from saying "Save as type: Text Documents (*.txt)" to "Save as type: All Files (*.*) Make sure you have the .bat on the filename.

Then trying launching minecraft by clicking on this new file. The error you are seeing is very similar to a once common issue when Java 7 came out. At that time Java 7 had trouble when it thought your computer was configured for IPv6, but it really wasn't. I haven't been seeing this issue lately, so I thought that the recent updates to Java 7 had fixed this issue. But perhaps not.

I'm sorry i'm not good with computers, can you kinda explain how to create a text file in the same directory as minecraft.exe?

First you need to know where your minecraft.exe is. Maybe it's on your Desktop.

Then hit the WIndows Key + R, a dialog will pop up, type in 'notepad', cut and paste my text from before into the notepad application.
Hit File -> Save As, and navigate to where minecraft.exe is

Alright so I did it all until the part where you say "navigate to where minecraft.exe is" what am i supposed to do then? I tried saving it but it turned the minecraft into a notepad document.
Sorry for my noobishness.

Alright,void that last post, I used your earlier post and the most recent and understood, but I can get to the part where you say just run the new file, and it opens and closes really quickly without doing anything else.

It shouldn't do that if you included "PAUSE" as the last line.
That's why I put it there, so that if there were any problems the window would wait for you to hit a key to close.

Got it, so now when I press any key the box disappears and nothing happens... heres what it says if you need it
C:\Users\laptop\Desktop>java -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -jar minecraft.exe
'java' is not a recognized as an internal or external command,
C:\Users\laptop\Desktop>Pause
Press any key to continue . . .

Okay, that just means that your Java installation is not part of your path variable.
You can either fix that, or put the full path to Java in the batch file, i.e. instead of java put something like "C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\java.exe" or "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin\java.exe" depending upon where it is on your computer. Keep the quotation marks because of the space in Program Files

Tried both of them, neither worked, the first one said cannot find a path, the other was very, very long and unless i can find a way to copy it you won't see it...

You mean the error message was very long? You could take a screenshot and upload it somewhere, then link it back here.

You should be able to copy and paste also by clicking the icon at the top left corner of the window, selecting Edit -> Select All, then Copy.. and of course paste it in a post.