That does not seem to be the issue here. If you are seeing a "3" in "main", this means that on exit, mIRC thinks it is minimized and is saving "3" to indicate that.
While mIRC is still open on the desktop I check the value in mIRC.ini and it is '3'. It is only updated to '0' when I close mIRC. When restarting it fails to write this '0'.
Right-click on the taskbar, open "TaskBar Settings", and in "Notification area", DISABLE "show all icons in the notification area". Scroll down the list to where "mIRC" is and turn it OFF.
The settings are not nested and labeled as you have described. Are you describing Windows 10? Or has this whole page changed in this WIndows 11 build? Regardless, I toggled all combination of controls and in every case the tip is shown.
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