I just finished buying minecraft and i downloaded the launcher got java 64 bit version the latest one. When i opened the launcher an error ocurred and i can't play. Something about unrecognized windows sockets and that it can't download the remote file, i have a good Wi-Fi and i don't have any firewall blocking it ( at least i don't think i do ) and here is part of the message it says the rest is just repeated and i have been trying to fix it for the past 2 hours and can't figure it out.
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/....pack.lzma" class='ext_link'>https://s3.amazonaws.com/....pack.lzma (try 9/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Unrecognized Windows Sockets error: 10107: create
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 10/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Unrecognized Windows Sockets error: 10107: create
Unable to download remote file. Check your internet connection/proxy settings.
FATAL ERROR: net.minecraft.bootstrap.FatalBootstrapError: Unable to download while being forced
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.execute(Bootstrap.java:95)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Boots
i have a windows 8 laptop 64 bit.