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Posted By: Armada The Lost mIRC - 25/10/04 09:20 AM
Otay this is odd, its happened a few times now. I have mIRC set to goto the tray when I minimize but not to stay in the tray when Its not minimize. I minimized mIRC and went about my buissness. I heard the tell tale BEEP which means I have a PM. I look in the tray mIRC is gone. I loaded task manager and it says mIRC is running I loaded another mIRC client from another folder, and there I am .
Windows XP Pro SP2
mIRC 6.16
Posted By: Collective Re: The Lost mIRC - 25/10/04 02:26 PM
This has been reported before (1,2,3,4,5,6,7), for me it only happens under high load as suggested in #5.

The posts also contain a number of solutions which worked for me.
Posted By: Armada Re: The Lost mIRC - 26/10/04 03:15 AM
Yea this beast is in need of a restart I just refused to do that, lol, have to beat my current uptime im at 1 week the best i did was 3, my memory is out bah, guess I just wont system tray it. Thanks was to tired i mustve missed those posts.
Posted By: tidy_trax Re: The Lost mIRC - 26/10/04 06:06 AM
Off Topic, what's the big deal about how high your uptime is? I never understood why people would rather have a slow computer that's been on for ages than a fast computer that's been on for like a day at most.
Posted By: landonsandor Re: The Lost mIRC - 26/10/04 04:23 PM
Honestly (and this gets off topic) I think MAYBE originally people did it to prove that windows COULD be left on (not that it SHOULD be left on) a long time so that *nix users wouldnt bash the OS nearly as much. Some people will even go so far as to say WHY they need to keep it on that long. Personally, I never saw the use either, but then I dont have the desire/need to either *shrug*
Posted By: zack Re: The Lost mIRC - 26/10/04 06:08 PM
If you suffer from some mental issue (like me) which, when you lose valuable buffer and it's like pulling the plug on a loved one, the thirst of nostalgia is gone, history being smashed into minute fragments of electrons wizzing through the universe into nothingness, then restarting is an issue.

*sits in the corner and rocks back and forwards*
Posted By: Darwin_Koala Re: The Lost mIRC (still OT) - 28/10/04 06:33 AM
And I managed to keep my W95 machine up for 10 weeks straight, with only minimal effect on performance.

Unfortunately, I have updated (and thus rebooted) too often on this machine to get anywhere near that!

Back to the original topic - I agree that a graceful reboot/reset to improve performance is a much more desirable thing these days, Windows is a lot more stable and there is nothing to prove!

Cheers,

DK
Posted By: Armada Re: The Lost mIRC - 04/11/04 08:01 AM
Well its not only that but Im a gateway to the network at work. So if say a few people want to get into work they have to go through my computer
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