For me to set it up and mine solo it took about.. 30 minutes.. That included a crash course in what exactly I was doing and why lol..
Complete procedure for windows solo mining:
Download and install Bitcoin.exe
*EDIT*
locate bitcoin.conf file
-if it is not in the directory that it is supposed to be in, create it
add following lines:
rpcuser=<YOUR_CHOSEN_NAME>
rpcpassword=<YOUR_CHOSEN_PASSWORD>
Download guiminer.exe
Add a shortcut for Bitcoin.exe and add '-server' without quotes for its startup command
Fire up Bitcoin
Fire up guiminer, select Solo mining, enter the user and password you added to the pocblm file, select your card and mine..
It will take BitCoin a little bit of time to update its block info.. Once that is done guiminer will just start mining.
Solo mining is definitely getting to be not worth it in the end. Unless you have 15 or so 5970s lying around!
I was still asleep when I wrote this apparently
sorry for the confusion.