Minecraft not opening on school laptops

[mason marnell@1457018692]

Me and my friends play minecraft in our free time at school. The IT people at our school upgraded some of our laptops to windows 10 and now I'm not able to even open the launcher. I have both the jar and exe version and neither work. I have administrator access but I'm not able to run either version. Does anyone have a solution? Thanks!

 

[Luminary]

You should probably ask the IT department at your school. They might have purposely blocked games like Minecraft because they are school laptops.

 

[Nonpossible]

Me and my friends play minecraft in our free time at school. The IT people at our school upgraded some of our laptops to windows 10 and now I'm not able to even open the launcher. I have both the jar and exe version and neither work. I have administrator access but I'm not able to run either version. Does anyone have a solution? Thanks!

Try installing the game on a USB drive and running it off that. That's what I used to do in highschool; I would install FireFox with pre-loaded proxy settings so I could browse wherever I wanted.

 

[Luminary]

Tom's doesn't condone circumvention of school policy. Please do not provide examples of how to avoid restrictions that have been placed on school property.

 

[mason marnell@1457018692]

I'm not saying the school doesn't approve of it I'm just saying it doesn't work. Nonpossible how do you install things onto USB drives? Do you mean just run it off of it?

 

[Nonpossible]

I'm not saying the school doesn't approve of it I'm just saying it doesn't work. Nonpossible how do you install things onto USB drives? Do you mean just run it off of it?

I guess I should tell you first to check with your school to make sure you know their policies. Don't do anything that will compromise your education.

That said, when you are installing a program at some point it will prompt you as to where you want to install. It will usually be something like "C:\ProgramFiles\ProgramName" All you simply do is make sure the media you want to install to is plugged in and then change the directory to that USB or External HDD or whatever it might be. So then the new file path would potentially be "F:\StorageDevice\NewFolder"

And again, I can't stress this enough, don't break your school's policies. I don't know what your school's rules are regarding these laptops but it's my hope that you learned something from this post. Put this knowledge in your toolbox and use it in future endeavors.