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well i run a simple bot service on a windows based machine and after about 200 channels i get *Error Creating Window. Is there any way to fix that

Sounds like either Windows or mIRC doesn't like having that many windows open at one time, which is kind of understandable (from the mIRC point of view), since mIRC is, technically, supposed to be used for chatting, and I don't know anyone that could keep up with 200 chat rooms, not to mention the fact that each chat window would be so small, if tiled, that you probably wouldn't be able to see the text anyways.

As to getting around it, the only thing that I can think of as a possibility, is to have multiple instances of mIRC running.

An example might be, 5 occurances of mIRC connected to 4 networks each, and 10 channels per network. Mathematically, that gives you 200 channels, yet each occurance of mIRC only has 44 windows (40 for the channels + 4 for each status window for the connections)

You might also think about hiding the windows that are realistically irrelevant, such as the status windows, using

That will hide the status windows for all of the connections that that occurance of mIRC is currently connected to.

Well I tried that, but it still stands at 200 channels per windows box. No matter now many times you open a new client. I have 500+ channels with bots and they are split up on 3 machines. Thanx tho, I need a way to get around it or change a setting on windows to allow me to open more

You might not be able to, as I said, mIRC (and IRC in general) is meant for chatting, not running a bot on several hundred channels. This might be a limitation that is built into mIRC and/or Windows that you can't get around, aside from using multiple boxes.

If you or anyone can figure out a way post back. thanx for ur help

this problem has been posted before, its a windows limit more than a mirc one from memory, as two mircs both running both doing it ate half the windows each (im working from memory here). I beleive Different Windows OS's and OS versions resulted with different limits (likely server versions of the os well have a higher limit <maybe>)

if you don't have to monitor the channel's or chat in them and just provide "bots", use sockets.