I'm not going go off on a rambling about why mirc should or shouldn't be given this addition, but what I am going to add is another alternative method to the problem.

As Raccoon said you can password protect mirc by holding ctrl. The other method is to (if you have XP) make the icon in the tray hidden. This can be done by right clicking the taskbar, going to properties. in the Taskbar tab, at the bottom click [Customize...]. Next locate the mirc icon, and select always hidden. Its the "out of site, out of mind" sort of idea. This will make XP place it under the lil [<] arror button in the tray.

If you want to enforce that further, change the mIRC Icon to a system icon. I can get you eitht he lil speaker for the sound control, or the monitor with the ruler for the display properties if you'd like it.

There are any number of ways to "get around" (for a lack of better terms) the no hide feature mIRC lacks, use them instead.


-KingTomato