The Minecraft legacy launcher is an older version of the current launcher, allowing players to install and run the game on older devices and builds.

Some programs may need higher access in order to work properly. If your Minecraft launcher still won’t load at this point, you can give it elevated access by letting it run as Administrator.

Open the Minecraft Launcher and go to the Minecraft Java Edition window in the left panel. Go to Installations, click the three horizontal dots icon (which appears when you hover your mouse over ...

Though Minecraft Java Edition can be downloaded and installed using Mojang's official launcher, the same can be achieved via custom launchers.

Minecraft players struggle to play Java Edition with the new Launcher causing log-in difficulties and long download times.

Somewhat confusingly, there was an old launcher called 'Minecraft Unified Launcher', which was specifically for Windows 7 and 8 and only launched Java Edition and Minecraft Dungeons.

A brand new launcher is in BETA for the Java version of Minecraft. Grab this new minecraft launcher and see what it's all about! In this video I go over all the details of the new launcher for ...