Tyheam

Yea I learned afterwards the separation of Technic and .minecraft when I went to get a texture pack and realized it was in the wrong texture folder. Edit: I uninstalled all versions of java, and installed java 7 only, didn't know if this was relevant but figured I would state it none-the-less. Whenever I run it with java, it pops up a window stating "Unable to launch the application". under the exception tab it has: MissingFieldException[ The following required field is missing from the launch file: <jnlp>] at com.sun.javaws.jnl.XMLFormat.parse(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.jnl.LaunchDescFactory.buildDescriptor(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.jnl.LaunchDescFactory.buildDescriptor(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.jnl.LaunchDescFactory.buildDescriptor(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source) at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Also sometimes running the jar also creates a folder on my desktop with the fields Customer->Appdata->Roaming->.techniclauncher->rtemp->"empty". I was able to replicate this yesterday but I forgot what exactly causes this. I know I probably screwed something up somewhere, as I'm really good at doing that accidentally.... However, the little work-around the OP found has been working fine for now, so I'm not to worried about it considering I just double click a file and the launcher starts. P.S. To the OP, sorry for hi-jacking your topic.

Yes, but running it with what? An unzipping application? Should it just go directly into the .minecraft folder? Then how would you choose between differing mod collections? And how would Tekkit come into play compared to Technic? I'm completely unclear as to what everyone means by "Running" the jar file.

This worked for me as well, which is great cause everything else people proposed didn't work. I also felt it would be lame to have to type that over and over, luckily I had the idea that maybe you could create a notepad file type to auto input the commands. Turns out all you have to do is take the two commands and put them into notepad (making sure each command has its own line) and make the file type ".cmd" without the quotes. Now all you have to do is run that file and it will bring up the launcher. P.S. The first time I ran it it didn't do anything, but the second time I ran it it worked.