In that case, forget about mining with your current hardware.
Your only chance is to leave your CPU running, mining solo and hoping to get lucky enough to find a block. However, there's very little chance of this happening with low-end hardware. It would be a waste of electricity, and you'd be better off buying coins directly with that money. Because, for example, even if you solo mine XMR on your own, even if by some miracle you have a block, you'd only earn around 0.8 XMR, and that could take several years.
In fact, if I was him, I would just sell off that PC to fetch whatever dollars it can and then buy an altcoin that I believe could grow in price in the next bull Market. It's so easy to do this in a bear market knowing that in 1–2 years when the bull market is back, the coins or tokens can easily go x5 ROI and above. Now there is no way he will get even a half of x5 ROI in the 1–2 years using his current hardware to mine Your only chance is to leave your CPU running, mining solo and hoping to get lucky enough to find a block. However, there's very little chance of this happening with low-end hardware. It would be a waste of electricity, and you'd be better off buying coins directly with that money. Because, for example, even if you solo mine XMR on your own, even if by some miracle you have a block, you'd only earn around 0.8 XMR, and that could take several years.
