Brand new, completely LOST! PLEASE READ AND HELP

[WeInsureOKC]

I've been trying for about a week to tap into the mining pools.  I want to start with the equipment I have on hand to get started, and once I see results upgrade.

I currently have 10 machines at my disposal, albeit I will only be able to CUDA mine (Nvidia cards) at this time.  I have read multiple threads on multiple sites regarding set-up.
What I can't locate is any troubleshooting assistance.  Multiple mining scripts like GUIminer-scyprt when executed pop-up a CMD window for about 1/10th of a second and then it closes.
I can't seem to figure out why I can't get a CMD window to stay open and give me any indication of an error.

Who is willing to help me figure out my issues, and I'm willing to donate % of LTC mining or AltCoin mining or even BTC (if I can ever figure that out!) to someone who is willing to mentor.

Thanks for the read, and I open to suggestions.


BTW- this CMD window issue happens on multiple machines.

[BlockChainLottery]

How do you start the executable? If you do that by clicking the pictogram, it will start and if there is something wrong it closes immediately.
Instead open a cmd window, and start the executable from there. In that case it stays open if the program ends after an error.

[deepceleron]

Windows key + R; type CMD and press enter, then you can run a command line program and see an error.

Guiminer is old and unmaintained. You should use maintained command-line utilities, not a gui that runs old versions for you.