Quote from: anihiel1 on December 29, 2013, 06:10:03 PM

Quote from: schnellminer on December 29, 2013, 06:02:16 PM

If you are just starting out and have no hardware I would suggest that you start mining LTC with any CPU's or GPU's you have around. I am running virtual machines on a number of large servers that have excess capacity for mining LTC. They manage to mine about 1 LTC a day using cgminer. If its bitcoins you are after you can then trade them online at one of the coin exchanges.

how exactly do i do that? I could not get cgminer or pooler cpu running on win xp, have no clue what I am doing wrong. I input all the proper values as far as i know, but the dos window just keeps repeating the command line ad infinitum. Using pooler on the laptop with win7, same exact values in the bat, runs fine

Check out:
https://www.coinat.com/tutorials/how-to-mine-litecoins-with-cgminer-on-windows/

It has some good step by step instructions for setting up cgminer on windows. If you are still unable to get it working, please provide more detail about the failure.