I bought MineCraft yesterday, and had fun for a few hours, digging, killing mobs and the like, until I realized that MineCraft has mods.
I downloaded and installed
this mod, followed the instructions and everything, but it refused to work.
I sighed, and resigned to playing vanilla. I deleted my .minecraft folder, and minecraft.exe, redownloaded, and tried to start it up.
I logged in, and almost immediately, I get a blank screen. Then my computer gets slow as fuck, and nothing works right anymore. I check the Performance in Windows Task Manager, and my memory usage is nearly twice of what it should be. I immediately end the javaw.exe process (the one that minecraft uses), and think that everything will be fine.
Of course, I'm wrong.
Memory usage was still sky high, and going ever higher, and firefox was crashing due to lack of memory, and soon, windows fucked up, and I had to flip the switch, shutting off my internet, my computer, and my printer (which was making weird noises throughout this whole thing).
Upon reboot, memory usage skyrockets up to where it was before I shut down, and the thing that is using the most memory turns out to be explorer.exe.
I know from experience that you don't end that process, and I don't know what to do.
I'm only managing to use firefox at the moment because I'm running in safe mode.
I know I should ask the MineCraft forums or something, but I really don't want to take part in that community.
Any help?