I've been a member for several months now and I can no longer contain my frustration with mining software.  I've been using BitMinter (thanks Dr!) most of the time and GUIminer when BitMinter is down (BTCGuild or Slush's Pool).

But now I have a handful of USB Erupters and am waiting for orders of ASICs from BFL, KNC and BitFury.  And GUIminer seems useless with ASICs so far.  I've now just wasted several hours of my life attempting to install BFGminer and have failed miserably.  In the past I've had failures with CGminer and others.

Seriously, what decade is this that we can't simply click an .exe file and have a completely functioning miner within minutes?!  I'm not a coder and never wanted to be one but I'm no technoob either.  Compiling, binaries, DLLs, blah, blah, blah.  Why is this so bleeping difficult?

I've been reading there forums virtually every day, hoping someone would post a fool-proof step-by-step on miner installation.  Or better yet, wishing someone would take pity on me an invent something simple.

Help me please!