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Hi, I have been having a problem with my Minecraft Launcher for a couple days now.
I had installed it on a Windows 8 OS, on the 20th of August, and made it work for about a full week. Now, after pressing "Repair" for Minecraft Launcher inside of Programs and Features, it gives me these messages:
Couldn't load launcher core from C:\Program Files (x86)\Minecraft
Launcher\game\launcher.dll: LoadErrorNotPresent
If this is your first time installing Minecraft, turn on your internet to install updates.
And then after I click "OK" another window pops up, saying:
Unable to start the Minecraft Runtime Environment. This is most likely cause by a corruption. Please try to reinstall Minecraft.
I followed that advice and reinstalled Minecraft multiple times. I've also ran it with Administrator, and deleted the .minecraft folder in %appdata% numerous times, but to no avail. I have also tried System Restoring my laptop, but it doesn't complete, due to an "AntiVirus Software", and I don't know which one it's talking about.
The entire process just starts over, and I'm starting to feel hopeless. Before I give up entirely, and wait a couple of years to purchase a brand new PC and start anew, does anyone have a solution to this?
Any help is EXTREMELY appreciated, even if it works or not. But I do hope it does.
-Benjamin
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I had this issue and the solution I found was strange. I was connected to the internet via tethering through my phone. Even though I had internet, the launcher was for some reason not recognizing that I was connected. After connecting through a proper wifi connection everything worked fine.
I don't know if this will help your particular case, but I thought I'd share just in case.
I had this issue and the solution I found was strange. I was connected to the internet via tethering through my phone. Even though I had internet, the launcher was for some reason not recognizing that I was connected. After connecting through a proper wifi connection everything worked fine.
I don't know if this will help your particular case, but I thought I'd share just in case.
Only 1 week later and I had same issue. I can verify this is a solution to this problem! I'm trying to reinstall java to play with some friends and 15 min later here I am after the installer failing. Thank you
reinstall the launcher or use a alternative launcher like: multimc, sklauncher, tlauncher (classic not the one from tlauncher.org but tlaun.ch), atlauncher, badlion client, salwyrr client, and lunar client. i also reccomend you downgrade java to the inital releases and use jar file instead of exe
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