Can't Launch!

[Xylar]

Hi! just got a new laptop with a legit minecraft account on windows 8, can't launch minecraft in case you needed to know, and I downloaded technic and tried to run it but when I did, it did nothing for hours. no error messages, nothing. the program just won't start. it's the same for every modpack launcher I try to use.

Any help would help! Thanks!

[EvilOwl]

Basic question: do you have x64 java installed?

Did you try to run it as administrator?

[Xylar]

yes, and yes. I might try reinstalling if all else fails

[Xylar]

o sry, I installed java when my username had an ! in it. thx anyway.