bitcoind ?

[Lurk]

I'm using windows 7 with the current version of bitcoin client.    when i start bitcoind.exe a blank box shows up.  Nothing else happens.
   when i go to close it,  i get a message saying bitcoind has stopped responding.    Are there any files I might be missing to use bitcoind?
Thanks.

[MysteryMiner]

Bitcoind is a version without GUI also know as a Daemon. Run regular Bitcoin instead.

[stevegee58]

I recall earlier this year that p2pool couldn't use bitcoin-qt as a server due to freezes/crashes so you had to use bitcoind.

Lately I've been using bitcoin-qt as a server with p2pool without problems.

[Lurk]

its exits at the rpc stage  and tells me to use this random password..... soo i entered the random password and defualt username into my bitcoin.conf  file   but its still telling me that it cant read my .conf and i should create one if it doesnt exist.     its in the right directory  and its not  a  .txt   file    its .conf     not sure whats going on with it

[Lurk]

tried saving the conf file to a txt   and then back to conf   with no luck.    Tried dropping the -server part and still the same error.
  for some reason its not recognizing my .conf file   I'm the administrator  and run bitcoind as admin still doesnt help.