Your question seems all jumbled up, and does not include enough information to give an answer.  Do you mean, How do I create a username, and register a channel?   and if so, which network are you using?

It looks like you want the /editbox command.  Look it up in the mIRC help file and see if it will do what you want. Good Luck.

What program are you using to chat on IRC?   With the mIRC program, nothing is sent to the channel until you press enter, so whatever you are typing is not seen by others until then.

The place to look in the mIRC help files is at the Timers section. There are good examples there. Try a few and if it still doesn't work you could paste your code in here and we could certainly take a look at it    (type /help timers in any window to see the section.)

direct link to a fix their forum:


Zonealarm fix:  http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/pressReleases/2008/LossOfInternetAccessIssue.html

confirmed.  I had 2 customers today - same thing. Congrats Microsoft.  Waiting for Zonealarm to fix it, or MS to fix it - whichever comes first.

I'm removing the zonealarm stuff and going to test out some other free firewall to advertise as a good product.

Any suggestions welcome.

never heard of acidchat, but I suspect it has a website where you can go through some sort of password recovery process.  Google is probably your best friend in any other case

<Oddjob^> OJ Tip:  Due to problems of clones or spammers, we may need to lock the channel to +i and +r modes. (invite only and registered only) This situation is temporary, so if you can't join, just try again in a minute or two.

I have many clients here for whom I've applied this update.  I haven't run into that problem, but my advice is to ask the software company through email or their public forum.  Maybe others have seen the problem, you might try searching their forums first before you post there.

Good Luck, let us know how it turns out

There have been discussions about adding <insert service here> to X going on inthe undernet forums for years. Always it comes down to this: how much can you bog the service down before it crashes?  That's why they've always balked (and rightly so) over adding bells and whistles.  Basic ops with a few frills, and let each CM deal with the rest and manage their own channel to their hearts' desire.

good points. Great info for the newbie

My very first spyware laden computer job had Avast installed on it.  That pretty much nailed it for me.  I don't know if the person's subscription ran out or what, but he told me it was supposed to be free, and it didn't protect him (the guy is a personal friend and his word is above reproach)  I've never had a reported problem from any of my clients running the --> AVG - ZoneAlarm - Spybot - AdAware - good common sense <--  combination.

For what it's worth...

Excellent site, I've been touting it for a long time.  For anyone complaining about mIRC, try the 2.1 version

Workaround starts here:  http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=gen&message.id=41181

ZoneAlarm is still one of the highest rated firewalls in all my trusted trade magazines.

Have they fixed their 'bug' yet? I'd like to hope so, cos i wanna re-enable the link.

John