Hum, 'new installations' of mIRC will not (or at least not in all situations) use a subfolder of the installation folder as the "root" folder. It's this "root" folder where mIRC looks for settings (mirc.ini) and the like. The issue is better explained
here .
Thus, your 'old' settings (mirc.ini) / variables (remote.ini) etc might still exist: in the appdata of your user account (if the blank remote.ini is located in a subfolder of mIRC) - or vice versa.
If this is the case,
here is some info how to fix it.
argv0 beat me to it
