Forums mIRC Help Multiple Mirc Instance

Hi,

I been trying to run two instances of the mIRC client, which I have been doing successfully. However when I open the second instance it will open with all the details of the first, such as perform and nick information.

I need to open both instances with its different details. Please could you explain to me what I need to do, or alternatively a link to a guide or soemthing.

Oh something else to note, I actually completed 2 installations and I have two seperate folders in my Programfiles dir. This doesnt seem to help, neither can I find any ini files or something to that affect that will direct different information.

Kind Regards,
Cupis

paste this in each mirc:

//echo -a $mircini

are they are both using the same mirc.ini?

you might need to use mirc's -r switch to point to the different mirc.ini folders

Thanks for the info, but where exactly do these go? I assume the first echo should go into perform? and the -r onto the executable?

no, the echo is just a test you can do in the status window as you open the mirc, to check whether they're both using the same mirc.ini

the -r switch is on the command-line of the shortcut you use to start mirc. in mirc's F1-help, look in the index for "command line" and you'll see the -r switch there.

By default, all instances of mirc are wanting to use the same

AppData\Roaming\mIRC folder inside your USERID's setup. You can override that by putting an mirc.ini in the same folder with mirc.exe, but that means you need to install mirc somewhere else besides c:\Program Files\ if your operating system restricts writing to those folders. You'll also want to make sure your mirc.ini is pointing to popups.ini remote.ini in paths that exist, and aren't pointing to the same file as the other mirc instance is using.

Aaah ha,

ok I found my shortcuts and just copied and renamed the two mirc dir's in your roaming directory.

on the shortcut you need to add ..." -r"path"

I kept excluding the inverted commas and it would revert back to default. Thanks for your help man