Boy oh boy can you ever tell that Khaled is using a M$ compiler. (Yes, I know that might not be the issue here, but this blows). Went back and deleted mIRC and tried installing it again. Well, this time the installer didn't freeze but mIRC still freezes with my default setup. I thought maybe the -r command line switch was broke so I copied the executable directly into my main directory and still no dice. This irked me bad so I opened mirc.ini and changed the remotes to off in all three places, still freezes. Next I removed all scripts, still freezes.

Well, got fed up with it and tried going back to 6.03. Guess what!?!?! Now it won't start neither. This is total BS. I don't know what installing 6.10 did but it certainly did something, likely in the damn registry (nothing but system specific settings should go here, *sigh*), and now I'm hosed big time. Guess I'll kill a few hours now adding my old setup back a piece at a time to a clean mIRC till I find the bug.

Sighs,
GregMo

/me forsees quite a few bug fix versions for 6.10...