
Yeah, no thanks….There are several potential causes for this glitch. Though, humorously, it prompted me to try the new and improved launcher… from the App store. Then I installed it and was brought to the all too familiar launch page, where I was able to finally sign in and play the game. Next, I went to the Minecraft download page and downloaded the Windows 7/8 package. So, what is the solution? Well, first I uninstalled the app from Settings -> Apps. Overall, the score at the time of this writing remains at 2.2 stars. Clearly people are not happy here 5 stars of unhappiness

Even the few 5 stars I found still noted the same issues, and in some cases, just left a bad review while giving it a 5-star rating. I was also not alone, with hundreds of reviewers having the same exact problems and rating the app with one star. At this point I wanted to smash my head into the deskĬlearly, I was not meant to use this version of the Minecraft launcher. So back into the app store I went, finding the launcher and clicking play. The game never launched, and no tasks created inside Task Manager. This time it installed but clicking on the launcher did absolutely nothing. Sighing, I decided to try getting the app directly from the Microsoft App store.

I closed the installer since it had not moved for over 15 minutes and decided to try again, only this time I got an error message. The progress bar never moved from this spot At first the installer ran, but soon it became apparent that process froze. I went directly to the downloads section of and grabbed the installer for Windows 10/11. I recently built a new computer and wanted to install the Minecraft launcher.
