Forums mIRC Help oh no stop the flashing

I installed the new version of mirc after a hard drive crash and now it flashes the taskbar icon everytime anyone says anything... i've poured over the options again and again and i can't find anything that turns it off.

it almost seems like the options dont even work because i also found one that says animate tray icon and turned that off - but it still animates all over the place.

how do you stop it? it kinda defeats the purpose of auto-hiding the taskbar when it is up all the time for mirc!

not sure about new version

but in older versions
tools --> options --> irc --> options and under 'flash on message' untick the boxes