Actually, this is even with a buffer of 500 lines... I also do not log channels.. only queries. So it doesn't make a lot of sense.. and I really don't want to change chatting clients as I've been on mIRC over a decade and know it's scripting language quite well.. trying to update myself to perl/tcl etc for xChat or some other client would just take a lot of time which I don't have and I'm a big fan of mIRC anyways... just posting this so hopefully it can be investigated and resolved.. regarding the GDI leak I almost never paste anymore ever so... I'm really not sure why mIRC gets laggy on nick changes or when a few queries open.. So there is probably a bug somewhere I think... or some more resource leaking issues.. just speculating there I don't know for sure. Well, that's all smile