Yes, this must be happening because in general mIRC is failing to save mIRC.ini for me and this startup/tray is just a side effect of that.
That does not seem to be the issue here. If you are seeing a "3" in "main", this means that on exit, mIRC thinks it is minimized and is saving "3" to indicate that.
But it's not being placed in the hidden tray area, the icon is always visible and the tooltip still is displayed.
I just tested this on Windows 7, 10, and 11, and the only time I see the tip is when Windows hides the mIRC icon in the hidden Windows tray area. When mIRC is displayed in the visible tray, the tip is never shown.
Can you please try the following:
Right-click on the taskbar, open "TaskBar Settings", and in "Notification area", DISABLE "show all icons in the notification area". Scroll down the list to where "mIRC" is and turn it OFF. Now:
1. Run mIRC.
2. In Options/Display/Options/Tray, enable "On startup minimize mIRC to tray".
3. Exit mIRC.
4. Run mIRC.
5. mIRC should now startup up minimized to the visible tray.
6. If you follow the above steps, you should not see the tip.
If you right-click on the taskbar, open "TaskBar Settings", and in "Notification area", ENABLE "show all icons in the notification area". Scroll down the list to where "mIRC" is and turn it ON.
If you now run mIRC, it should be in the hidden tray icon area, and you should see the tip.
