The client is only small, it would only take a minute or so on a decent connection.
3 sec
over 9000 hours
You should be able tto download it as soon as you've paid for it.
Approximately 2 or 3 hours.
it wont you need to download the server thing of the minecraft website and replace the old one with it.
You can download skins from a website and then go on the Minecraft Website. Or download it to Minecraft and it will take you to the page
To determine how long it would take to run a windows media player download would depend on your internet connection, dialup would take much longer than DSL or cable.
Downloading minecraft is super fast, depending on your internet speed. As a personal experience, a school computer running at 70KBps could download it around a minute or so, so it doesn't take too long! However, a faster speed internet could download it in under 30 seconds!
Not long. Just download xampp and run the installation.
Very long...
It depends on your internet speed. The file is around 2GB.
Downloading Minecraft is super fast, depending on your internet speed. As a personal experience, a school computer running at 70KBps could download it around a minute or so, so it doesn't take too long! However, a faster speed internet could download it in under 30 seconds!