Hello,

Just got into bitcoin mining a couple months ago, playing around with it a little bit, but nothing too serious.

I am looking for a way to run a miner as a service. My nephew is wanting me to build him a new PC and says if I buy him a card to put in it, I can mine from it while he is not using it, since he only games a couple hours a night. Now, I admire his spirit in getting a good video card without saving the money for it, plus it gives me a chance to increase my hashrate, but I wonder if it is possible to have something run as a service in the background, even if he isn't logged in.

Anyone know of a way to do this? He would be running Windows 7 or 8.