What this guide will show you.

How to download and install IRC.

General configuration of IRC.

What is IRC.

IRC stands for "Internet Relay Chat". It was originally written by Jarkko Oikarinen in 1988. Since starting in Finland, it has been used in over 60 countries around the world. IRC is a multi-user chat system, where people meet on "channels" (rooms, virtual places, usually with a certain topic of conversation) to talk in groups, or privately. There is no restriction to the number of people that can participate in a given discussion, or the number of channels that can be formed on IRC.

Why should i use IRC.

Get into it and you will find out.....

First steps.

Download and install IRC you can get it here www.mirc.com from there goto download mirc and select a link closest to you under mIRC 6.21, for Windows Vista, XP, ME, 2000, 98, 95, NT etc if you are using a windows operating system.

Installing IRC.

On completion of download navigate to the location or folder where you have saved IRC and double click mircxxx.exe xxx being the version.

Below a screenshot to what you will see on your screen:

Drag your mouse pointer and click Next >, that brings you to the below screenshot.

Read the agreement if you want to :) or just do what we all do click on I Agree.

Then you will see the below screenshot:

From this screen select within Destination Folder where you want to install IRC or just click Next > to install to default location c:\Program Files\mIRC\

After that brings you to below screenshot:

On this screen enables you to select what components you want to install, if your happy with default install settings just hit Next >

That brings you to the below screenshot:

This is where your installed IRC application will be shown through the START menu on your windows operating system, again click Next > for default install.

You will then see below screen:

Click Next > from here brings you to below screenshot:

Here you verify your selected options click Install and IRC will install to your computer.

Few moments IRC has now been installed.

From here tick Run mIRC and click Finish.

 

Configure IRC.

After following the above steps you are ready now to configure IRC and will see the below screenshot:

 

From here click Continue.

That brings you to the below screenshot:

Fill in the above boxes to match your requirements then select the servers tab under category: then click Add. You will see an Add Server window pop up as shown in the below image.

Fill in the same details if you wish to connect to Quakenet a popular IRC network. Remember there are many IRC servers to use, Quaknet is just one of them. Please take note that the IRC Server showed above in the Add Server window irc.b0rk.co.uk take note that the 0 in b0rk is numeric 0. Once the above details are entered correctly click Add and the below the screenshot is what you should have.

With Quakenet selected in IRC Servers: click Select to choose the Quakenet server and from that screen just hit ok.

Now select Options under Category: will bring you to the below screenshot.

On this screen you need to tick Connect on startup and Reconnect on disconnection then click Perform will bring you to the below screenshot. In the Perform window tick Enable perform on connect and enter the below information /j fraguk into the Perform commands: what this does is automate what channels you connect to when you first load IRC, instead of you entering it manualy every time to enter channels. You will also connect automaticly now when u load irc to Quakenet which we set up earlier and if you are disconnected you reconnect automaticly.

Now the final steps select IRC under Category: which will bring you to the below screenshot: tick Rejoin channel when kicked and Rejoin channels on connect what this does is if a user kicks you from a channel you automaticly rejoin the channel and also you will automaticly join channels that you set in the Perform window earlier.

From here just click ok.

Connecting to IRC.

These are the final steps to complete your IRC setup, as shown below click the connect button showed below as click here to connect and a popup window will appear untick Popup favorites on connect, to prevent that box appearing everytime you connect to IRC and click ok.

Finaly you are connected to Quakenet IRC Server and joined channel fraguk.

 

Tutorial by EnhanceR 2007