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I just built myself a new computer, and want to mine with it. I used GUIMiner on my old computer, but that doesn't want to work for some reason (connection errors). So I tried out CGMiner and got it pretty much working so for using these (http://pastebin.com/3pzivj32) instructions. Even though it's working, I have no idea what I did or what any of those steps meant. All I know is that I compiled the program from source code. I also have no idea how to use the program aside from entering the information for one of the pools I use. My question is, is there a guide somewhere for noobs who want to use CGMiner? I mean noob noobs that are very much not used to command line interfaces. Also, how do I make it so I can enter the information from other mining pools I am a member of? Is there a GUI or something that can be used in order to make CGMiner somewhat palatable for someone like me who comes from a very GUI computer experience? Thanks in advance

I'm not aware of any GUI, but if you compiled CGMiner from source, you should be able to figure out the command line without much of a problem.

To use the command line you just do

command option1 option2 option3 ...

You have to follow the options that are specific to the command.  You can pretty often get a list of the options with the option --help. E.g.

cgminer --help

(side note, I don't know why, but on my system, this takes over a minute, but it does eventually come back. I think it's because I'm running cgminer at the same time, though).

Now watch this video for some more tips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1TKYpxTmso

Here is an example that mines to p2pool with Eclipse as a backup.

cgminer -I7 --submit-stale -g1 -o http://p2pool.hopto.org:9332 -u x/999 -p x -o http://us.eclipsemc.com:8337 -u cabin_worker -p a

and here is a more advanced example that under clocks the memory and overclocks the GPU.. but don't use these params until you know what you are doing. The numbers for you will be different and wrong numbers could break your video card.

cgminer -I7 --submit-stale --gpu-memclock 600 --gpu-engine 900 --gpu-fan 44 -g1 -o http://p2pool.hopto.org:9332 -u x/999 -p x -o http://us.eclipsemc.com:8337 -u cabin_worker -p a

You can also change settings on the fly by typing either P, G, S or D.

Thanks for the info guys. I managed to figure out the basics of how to add accounts and whatnot. Something annoying, though, is that I cannot figure out how to get it to save my account info so I don't have to enter it every time. Is there a file I have to edit in order for this to be possible?

you could just save a working command line into a .bat file and then run the bat file each time?