Just found this and I'm glad I did. This helped me out a lot. I don't know what example.conf is supposed to be renamed in the cgminer directory so this seems to solve my problems with that by passing the parameters directly to cgminer.exe. Big improvement over having GUI Miner run cgminer. Used to get ~500 MH/s with GUI Miner with my 7970 and now I've had a few spikes of ~700 MH/s! That resulting output should be taken with a grain of salt but overall my average has definitely increased. Right now I'm getting about 550 MH/s and this is with no optimization. I think I can consistently get closer to 700 MH/s than 500 MH/s with some tweaking.

I know this is an old thread but I think it deserves a bump since it still works and quite well.