mIRC is one of the greatest and most popular Windows IRC clients available. Everyone who has used it will agree that mIRC is an excellent tool to put you in touch with other tech-savy individuals throughout the many IRC communities.

The program is reliable and stable, widely adopted, and sports a huge library of third party scripts which can be installed to customize just about everything in the program. Some of the most notable and yet taken-for-granted features about mIRC are it’s advanced post-connection preferences, allowing you to specify macros for actions such as joining a specific series of chat channels, specifying a user name specific to each IRC server, automatically registering a nickname you want to have privileges to, etc, all done automatically after the connection has been established, and each macro being executed appropriately dependent on which IRC network you have connected to.

Those configuration options, while being your best friend, can also be your worse enemy. Unfortunately by default, mIRC stores all the configuration preferences within the Windows registry. In this visual guide, I will show you how to make mIRC portable and able to be easily moved from computer to computer. All of this, while retaining your preferences without the need for the Windows Registry database. Continue Reading