Making MIRC Work For You

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Downloading and Installing

Go here and download MIRC. Just click the link and do yo thang♥ I'll wait for you.

Once it's downloaded, double click the executable. You'll get the following screen:



Hit next!



You're gonna have to agree to sell your soul to the MIRC people or something like that so just hit okay or whatever and move on.



Chances are, you're gonna want the default installation path. If you got some crazy installation path that you know of then why you reading this tutorial to begin with? You probably know what you're doing already. 8| Or maybe not. Whatever, just most people will want the default. Otherwise decide where you want to install it and hit next.



Leave this screen as it is, unless you reeeally don't have the 3.2MB needed for installation or something. Actually in that case you might want to go delete some of that porn you're not using anymore. IRC is obviously more important. Next!



I'd leave this one alone too, unless you really hate desktop shortcuts and auto updates. Which I do. But whatever, you can decide that for yourself and check/uncheck boxes as necessary. Next!



Now here's the hard part. Hit install! omg.

There'll be a window in here that I wasn't fast enough to get a cap of, but it's just some funky bars showing you that the program is installing. After it completes, there'll be one more screen.



You don't have to open MIRC now but I'd recommend it. Y'know. So we can get on with the tutorial.

Configuring MIRC

Now that you've got MIRC installed, it's time to run it for the first time!



When you do, you'll get a screen like this. Don't worry about the nag screen, we'll deal with that later. Just hit continue.



MIRC will automatically pop up this window for you the first time you run it. How convenient! But guess what? It wants you to connect to the wrong server. That bastard!



So go over to servers in the menu and scroll down. Oh no! LunarNet isn't on here! But that's okay, just hit Add.

Fill in the information just like that! You can call it whatever you want, you don't have to call it LunarNet. You could call it Rainbow Nuclear Fairies for all I care. Whatever you do, when you're done, hit Add. (note, if you're behind certain firewalls, especially University firewalls, they may block port 6667 and you'll have to use another.)



Yay now LunarNet is in the list! \o/ So hit Select!



Now fill in the rest of the information...with YOUR information preferrably, not mine. So that means your name (obviously I just used my online handle, it doesn't care) and your own email, as well as your nickname and then a backup nickname if yours is already taken for some reason. Most people in channel us their character name(s). Then hit Connect!



Your window's gonna look something like this now! It'll pop up asking you for a channel you want to join. You can also see here that since I was still connected to IRC through another program, that it game me my alternative nickname.



So type in the channel name (#campfuckudie) and hit join!



OH MY GOD YOU'RE IN. YAAAY. NOW STARTING CHATTING.

Next time on How To Make MIRC Your Bitch: How to Crack MIRC.