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HELP PLEASE! FORGE DOWNLOAD ERROR THING.


Guntuner

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So everytime I try to download forge 1.8.9, it does not download. Instead it dowloads some weird stuff on word pad. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!! [Yes I tried other versions to.]  :'(

 

 

When I click install, instead of a java file a word pad file downloads. Then when I open the word pad it has like a 100 pages of codes or something. I tried multiple times. Updated my java and everything but nothing works.

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What's the full name (including extension) of the file you downloaded? It should be viewable in your browser's download list.

 

I suspect you've somehow set WordPad as the default application of whatever file type you downloaded. All downloads except the changelog are some sort of binary file, so they'd look like a bunch of random characters if opened in a text editor/word processor like WordPad.

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What's the full name (including extension) of the file you downloaded?

 

What's the answer to this? If it's a .jar, you just have to associate .jars with Java again. If it's a .exe, you'll have to do some RegEdit witchcraft like what Mrredstone231 suggested.

 

EDIT: For example, if it's a .jar:

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