I tried to get minercontrol to work for 3 days before I simply gave up. Between one simple error hardcrashing the scrypt, and having to create a json file from scratch with very little relevant pool guidelines, it was too much for me. If you can do it more power to you, but jk's scrypt works well for me so I leave it alone as much as possible. Minus a few tweaks of course.
I got it to kinda work. I ended up taking Scryptr's post of his config file and removing the parts of it in the switches area that were causing problems. For example, ccminer 1.8 doesn't actually have a -C switch and that was causing the miner to close before it could hash anything. Once I took that switch out, it started up and began hashing.
Also, since I have ATI at work and NVidia at home, I'm starting to think it's going to be a hassle to use it since it doesn't really come with any instructions. As I've said many times in the forums, there IS a ton of info but many times you get the sense that you're just "supposed to already" know how certain things work. It's not a big deal as it does tend to weed out those who aren't serious about learning, but it wouldn't hurt to have a newcomers guide for some of this. Incidentally, that's what I'm building as I go.
IN 2014 I WAS NEW--
LiteCoin was still $20 or so, and I didn't loose anything at Mt. Gox. But I didn't know SGminer from CCminer and I started to read and learn. You have many questions, but the answers to questions don't make a guitar player great, practice does. You have just noticed that I switched from SPminer private to TPruvot's CCminer, but left a typo behind. Sorry, tough beans.
You must work with the material to learn it. So far, so good. Wish the best for you. --scryptr