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I just built this computer i know what i am doing when it comes to that this is the second one i built first time no problems but this one i can't seem to download minecraft... i get this error prompt



Bootstrap (v5)
Current time is Sep 13, 2014 7:46:01 AM
System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Windows 8.1'
System.getProperty('os.version') == '6.3'
System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'amd64'
System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.8.0_20'
System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Oracle Corporation'
System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '64'

Looking for update
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma
Got reply in: 1348ms
No update found.
Reversing LZMA on C:\Users\Davey!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack.lzma to C:\Users\Davey!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack
Unpacking C:\Users\Davey!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack to C:\Users\Davey!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.jar
Cleaning up C:\Users\Davey!\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack
Starting launcher.
FATAL ERROR: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at org.apache.logging.log4j.util.PropertiesUtil.<init>(PropertiesUtil.java:71)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.util.PropertiesUtil.<clinit>(PropertiesUtil.java:31)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.status.StatusLogger.<clinit>(StatusLogger.java:48)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:44)
at net.minecraft.launcher.Launcher.<clinit>(Launcher.java:56)
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 net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.startLauncher(Bootstrap.java:240)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.execute(Bootstrap.java:124)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:381)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.logging.log4j.util.ProviderUtil.<clinit>(ProviderUtil.java:70)
... 12 more


Please fix the error and restart.



I have re-installed everything on my computer and nothing worked..



please help!!!

Having exclamation marks or other special characters in your Windows username can break Java, which in turn breaks Minecraft. The only way to fix this issue is to create a new Windows account without any special characters (only A-Z and 0-9).

that sucks i had no idea thank you sooo much i will try that now.

whenever i try to download minecraft it just says it is an unknown publisher please help or i will legitimately start to cry
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