[MCL-1227] Minecraft Launcher Fatal Bootstrap Error when having a modified Windows system theme

Workaround:
From the minecraft forums, posted by user Tehyoda:

1. Open notepad.
2. Copy and paste the code below into the notepad window.
3. Goto File => Save As... and save the file as "StartMC.bat" (with the quotes)
4. Save the "StartMC.bat" file in the same directory as Minecraft.exe
5. Use StartMC.bat to run Minecraft.

Note: If you use minecraft.jar instead of minecraft.exe, change the filename in the script.

The code:

@start /B javaw -Dswing.systemlaf=com.sun.javax.swing.plaf.metal.CrossPlatformLookAndFeel -jar Minecraft.exe

Clean Windows 7 install
All drivers are updated

I'm getting an error when trying to run the minecraft.exe.
I recently downloaded it, and when i try to run it, it only gets this far:

Bootstrap (v5)
Current time is Jul 18, 2013 12:10:08 AM
System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Windows 7'
System.getProperty('os.version') == '6.1'
System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'amd64'
System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.7.0_25'
System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Oracle Corporation'
System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '64'

Looking for update
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma
Got reply in: 607ms
No update found.
Reversing LZMA on C:\Users\Dennis\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack.lzma to C:\Users\Dennis\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack
Unpacking C:\Users\Dennis\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack to C:\Users\Dennis\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.jar
Cleaning up C:\Users\Dennis\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack
Starting launcher.
FATAL ERROR: net.minecraft.bootstrap.FatalBootstrapError: Unable to start: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
	at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.startLauncher(Bootstrap.java:242)
	at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.execute(Bootstrap.java:124)
	at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:381)


Please fix the error and restart.

I tried this with both Java 32 bit and Java 64 bit, same result.
I never got past that point.

I haven't played this game for quite a while, so this is a clean install.