ORIGINAL PROBLEM (forge not showing up in minecraft launcher)

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I downloaded forge, ran it, extracted it, and installed it. It successfully installed - it told me (see picture). Then I checked to make sure it was in my .minecraft folder (it was). When I tried to make a configuration in the launcher, the forge version wasn't in the list. I've never done this before (I'm not good with computers, and I followed a youtube video to do this ) so I probably made some stupid mistake. Does anyone know what's wrong???  

 

 

 

 

I restarted my computer and it worked when I tried to open it, but 

this happened, and when I try to debug, the debug thing crashes ;/

I tried to do this again and minecraft won't even open...

I feel like something is probably wrong with my computer (it is really old/ windows 7)

Edited May 27, 20178 yr by _juuzou_

2 hours ago, diesieben07 said:

Why is that universal jar there? It should not be there. The installer generates a JSON file in the versions folder, that is what matters.

what should I do to fix that?

You just moved files around that you shouldn't of, You can delete it.

However for your new issue read the EAQs as listed at the top of this forum and disable the loading screen.

Before you ask how to do that, it's in the EAQs -.-

On 5/28/2017 at 3:04 AM, LexManos said:

You just moved files around that you shouldn't of, You can delete it.

However for your new issue read the EAQs as listed at the top of this forum and disable the loading screen.

Before you ask how to do that, it's in the EAQs -.-

I didn't move any files around, minecraft was like that when I downloaded forge.

Also, I did look at the EAQs before posting, but as for the whole "disable the loading screen by setting "enabled" to "false" in .minecraft/config/splash.properties." thing - I have no idea how to do that? 

 

I went to %appdata% and got all the way to "splash.properties", but my computer can't read that kind of file... what am I doing wrong? 

Sorry, I'm feeling like an idiot 

It is just a normal text file with a different extension, so you can open the file with any text editor.

Deleted spam and revoked GoreFalcon's post access for 6 days. As a final word on the subject. It is a rule that 1.7.10 {AKA: Really old versions that are no longer in development} do not get active support on this forum. So I informed him of that in his first thread and locked it. He then created ANOTHER identical thread bitching that I locked his first. Which I promptly merged witht eh first and locked again. He also spent a bit of time spamming a few other people's threads trying to get them to look at his thread. He then made ANOTHER thread about the same thing. Yes technically the 3rd thread was universal but he posted it as a cry for 1.7.10 help and I was annoyed enough to not really look to deep into it.

 

Now he's hijacking other people threads to bitch about the admins {me} on this site. Which is not appropriate. If you have a legit complaint we'll take it into account but just hijacking to say we're assholes is not legit.

Anyways, that ends that.

 

As for on topic. I may take it for granted but whenever I see a file I'm told to change text in.. I open it in a text editor... I just feel that's common sense. But whatever. You have to open the splash.properties file in a text editor as larsgerrits stated.