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Hello everyone!



I have played Minecraft on xbox but recently decided to get it on PC and upon installing and running the game I get



"Sorry, but we couldn't connect to out servers. Please make sure that you are online and that Minecraft is not blocked. (SocketException: Invalid argument: connect)



I have read up on a few of these with no resolve. I'm not familiar with coding java so I haven't messed with anything on that level.

I have Java 8 installed

WIndows 7 Ultimate



I've redownloaded java 8 multiple times to re install along with uninstalling any older Java.



Any suggestions? I'd really like to keep the game ...

Seems like your antivirus/firewall is blocking Minecraft from connecting to the internet and downloading the game files.

You should be able to go into the settings and allow Minecraft to connect to the internet.

Quote from Miiralion»

Seems like your antivirus/firewall is blocking Minecraft from connecting to the internet and downloading the game files.

You should be able to go into the settings and allow Minecraft to connect to the internet.

I've tried turning it off and keeping it off but to no luck.

This error means that you can't connect to Mojang's servers to download the game files.

Either your internet connection is messing up, your antivirus is blocking Minecraft (might be listed as javaw in your antivirus?) or Mojang's servers aren't working.

bump. I'm having the same issue. I've completely disabled both my firewall and AV, but I still get the same problem.

Huzzah! I went and talked to a tech guy and he gave me some good advice.



First, hit start. in the "search programs and files" search bar, type in cmd.



Right click cmd and run as an administrator.



Type this in: netsh winsock reset



Hit enter.



Restart your computer.



This fixed the problem for me, good luck!

ligidi, a problem similar to this used to be quite common and happened with newer versions of Java on machines that had an incomplete IPv6 configuration. Java would only try to use IPv6 on such a machine and fail to connect.

If this is your problem it can be solved by adding the following parameter to your JVM_Arguments in your launcher profile.

-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true