Launcher refusing to open

[Flayzuh]

I've been trying to install a shaders mod via Forge API and the launcher is unable to process, let alone run, the Forge profile. I've been having this issue for about 2 hours now and I've been reaching out to several sites. Unfortunately, the latest Minecraft launcher does not show logs and I can't seem to find a way to locate the logs on the launcher. Besides the crash popup from the launcher, this is the only available info on the crashes that I've been able to find:

[17:36:43] [Client thread/INFO]: Setting user: Flayzuh
[17:36:45] [Client thread/INFO]: LWJGL Version: 2.9.4
[17:36:47] [Client thread/INFO]: Reloading ResourceManager: Default
[17:36:48] [Sound Library Loader/INFO]: Starting up SoundSystem...
[17:36:48] [Thread-3/INFO]: Initializing LWJGL OpenAL
[17:36:48] [Thread-3/INFO]: (The LWJGL binding of OpenAL.  For more information, see http://www.lwjgl.org)
[17:36:49] [Thread-3/INFO]: OpenAL initialized.
[17:36:49] [Sound Library Loader/INFO]: Sound engine started
[17:36:54] [Client thread/INFO]: Created: 1024x512 textures-atlas
[17:36:56] [Client thread/INFO]: Narrator library for x64 successfully loaded
[17:41:32] [Client thread/INFO]: Stopping!
[17:41:32] [Client thread/INFO]: SoundSystem shutting down...
[17:41:32] [Client thread/WARN]: Author: Paul Lamb, www.paulscode.com

The only thing I can think of to fix it is that it seems to crash as it unpacks the 0209-natives-windows.jar folder, at the very start of the launch, while all other versions (even as old as 1.7.10) run fine. Is there any way I can fix this without having to tear apart and backup all of my Minecraft saves?