The cause is usually antivirus software, you could try to add mIRC as an exception on it or temporarily disable the antivirus to see if mIRC is running

Edit: Just tried 7.48, I'm using Windows 7, no problem.

Last edited by Wims; 16/04/17 02:10 PM.
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