Lack of Windows wallet & starting to mine regardless

There is a WIP Windows wallet but it’s not going to make it to mainnet launch, see here for more info. If you want to mine from day one, you will either have to use Linux to run both the miner and the node+wallet or in case you desperately want to use Windows for mining it might be possible to use GrinGoldMiner for mining and deploy your node+wallet on a Linux host.