How To Setup mIRC

mIRC is easily the most popular IRC client for Windows. With it you can connect to WyldRyde and chat in many channels. You may also use it to run very simple to very complex scripts that can even allow you to setup mIRC as a full featured IRC Bot.
How To Setup mIRC for Windows:
(Editors note: This tutorial was written by Firebucket.)
NOTE: mIRC is NOT free, but WILL run after 30 days of use, if you have not registered your copy. It will just become nagware, meaning you’ll have to wait 30 seconds before you can click OK on the Registration Reminder when starting mIRC

• Download and install mIRC
  mIRC is avaliable from http://mirc.com (or http://mirc.co.uk).
  1. Download the setup file and run it.
  2. Follow each step, but make sure you select ‘Full’ from the Choose Components part of the installation wizard, not Upgrade.
  3. mIRC will now install and then an icon will appear on your desktop; if you specified the setup to create an icon.
• Configure mIRC
  1. When you first start mIRC, and get past the Registration Warning screen (just press Continue when that appears) the mIRC Options dialog will appear.
  2. Fill in your First Name, Email Address (you don’t have to provide one), a nickname you would like to use and an alternative nickname.
     
  3. Now we have to select WyldRyde as the server we want to connect to.
  4. Select ‘Servers’ from the Category Tree-menu on the left-hand side.
  5. Then scroll to and click on ‘WyldRyde‘ in the ‘IRC Servers’ list, then click Select.
     
  6. Now we can connect! Click ‘Connect’ in the mIRC Options dialog, under the ‘Connect’ option in the tree menu.
     
  7. The mIRC Favorites dialog will appear when you connect. This is pointless as none of the chatrooms/channels in that list are on WyldRyde. Untick ‘Pop up favorites on connect’ at the bottom of the dialog, and then click OK.
     
• Registering your nickname and joining channels
  Well, you’ve made it! You’ve successfully connected to WyldRyde. Time to register your nickname, so no one else can use it! The nickname I’m using for this tutorial is ‘Tutorial1′, but you can use whatever you like, as long as it isn’t already registered. (You’ll be notified if it is already taken)
  So, to register your nickname type:
  /msg NickServ REGISTER password email
  Replace ‘password’ with a unique password and ‘email’ with your legitimate email address. Make the password difficult, but make sure you can remember it, as you will need to identify yourself every time you connect to WyldRyde.
  
  You are now registered
  Now that you’ve got that out of the way, why not join a channel and start chatting? If you want to talk about a certain topic, or just hang out, it’s probably best to look at the channel list.
  To view the channel list, type the following and hit enter:
  /list
  The channel list will start to populate. Double click on any channel you wish to join, and you will enter that channel.
  
• Reconnecting and Identifying
  Missing IRC and want to reconnect again? No problem!
  1. Start up mIRC again, and click either the Connect icon () in the toolbar, or click ‘Connect’ from the mIRC Options dialog, like we did earlier.
  2. Once you’ve connected, you’ll need to identify your nickname using the password we made during registration.
     To identify, type:
     /ns identify password
     Be SURE to replace ‘password’ with the unique password we created during registration

Note: You can set mIRC up to identify you automatically, and join channels when you have identified correctly, but there are posts on this forum to assist you with those things. Check out the related topics section below.
Related topics:

1. How To Setup X Chat (Free IRC Client.)
2. mIRC Script for Identifying & Joining Channels on Connect
3. Using mIRC to connect to multiple networks.
4. Other IRC Clients

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