Originally Posted By: argv0
It's relevant because the change in mIRC was made to respect userdata in multi-user systems (as per Vista's new requirement).
If you didn't piece together the puzzle, the reason Vista no longer allows writing to program files is because you're expected to respect how userdata is stored in a multi-user system-- and that means writing to AppData (or the Documents folder).

Where did the feature requester state his pc is used by more people? Or did you add that piece in -your- puzzle?