To me the beauty of mIRC was its simplicity. It's a lot easier to come up with complicated things and keep mending and fixing them as needed! mIRC has always kept slim, simple, basic, timeless, a great program for the 1990s and a great program for the 2000s - until this "Vista compatible" version. In the MS and Windows world, where things dont always work like they are supposed to, mIRC used to be an oasis of intelligent programing. Why not keep mIRC that way?
mIRC was a great stand alone program until it decided to become "Vista Compatible", where the installed program got spread in program files, application data, etc.
I used to run several versions of mIRC each with their own script plus own little scriptlets. Doing that became a nightmare after "Vista Compatible mirc". I also separate OS from data in different drives for back up purposes but I cant do that anymore because if I restore a backup I lose the latest mirc logs and settings.
Ever since mIRC decided to get spread on different folders things became a nightmare. I thought I'd install the "Vista Compatible" mIRC in the XP way (forcing it to stay standalone by keeping a mirc.ini in that same directory). Well my computer/Vista didnt like that. I searched the forum to find out why popups.ini isnt working anymore... And why my mIRC 6.34 was all weird even though I had a mirc.ini already in that directory... and what I found was issue after issue, setting after setting that only a computer wizz can understand let alone keep track of. (
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I am not a newbie. I am not a script wiz. But I wonder if I none of that would happen if mIRC continued to be a standalone program?!?! I migrated from Windows 95 to 98 to 2000 to XP and mIRC always worked great thru every migration. Why? Because it always kept itself detached from Windows "guts". Maybe I am very confused with Vista and dont understand its concept... But come on...!! mIRC used to be so simple... Now it needs pages and pages (of tutorials and forum discussions) to help, guide and fix endless instalation issues!
Some people in this forum may feel tempted to offer me solutions to the issues I am having but that is not what I am asking. I am not asking for that. What I am asking is: is keeping mIRC simple and standalone a crazy or an interesting suggestion?? mIRC always followed Khaled's brilliant mind and his simple concept! Is it "normal evolution" that mIRC should try to comply with Gates' confused mind and "never finished, always crashing" programs?
