thanks Riamus2
minimizing all channel, right click, position, set as default worked
I use this too, but there's a problem with this: When I'm still connected to my bouncer (also ZNC), and it ping timeouts from the IRC server and it then reconnects, all the channels it joins then will still popup, which is annoying. Perhaps the earlier posted scripts in this thread can help but it'd be better if mIRC really did use the default setting as a default instead for these 'reconnect-cases'.
