for the record, this is not a mIRC issue, its a server issue.
most servers require you to be an op in a channel before your permited to register it, most of those same networks will make it so that if you join an empty unregistered channel, you become the channel op, being the only person there and the chan being unowned.
so to get op in the chan u wish to register (asuming its not registered already)
simply join it when no one else is there.
most networks will require you to have a registered nick before u can register a channel though .. so thats somethign to think about if u dont have a registered nickname.
Cobra^
