Strange, that doesn't happen here (XP Pro, mIRC 6.14). Have you expanded the tray? (clicking the little
icon). If you find it there then it may be set to "always hide".
1) Right click the tray, go to 'Properties' and...
2) in the 'Taskbar' menu click on 'Customize...'.
3) Scroll down to the mIRC icon and highlight it.
4) Choose 'Always show' from the drop down list.
Whilst not the same issue, the code Online posted in
this thread may be of help as a small fix.
Might want to use the
Search feature, expanding to 'All Forums' and 'All Posts' will give you best results, although a search on "Tray" in the mIRC Help forum alone gives a good number of results.
Collective also mentioned something online, this sometimes does occur if there is a high system load on XP, however, it shouldn't happen all of the time.
G'luck!
Regards,