# Recommend a good IRC client for Windows XP.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-irc-client-for-windows-xp/395812>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 13, 2007, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-irc-client-for-windows-xp/395812 "2007-03-13T23:04:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-irc-client-for-windows-xp/395812/1 "2007-03-13T23:04:51Z")

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“Good” means stable, configurable, scriptable, and with the ability to store a number of custom server lists, default channels, and usernames/passwords for nick bots; useful but minimal GUI, and it should be alive and regularly updated.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-irc-client-for-windows-xp/395812/2 "2007-03-13T23:09:56Z")

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I use [mIRC](http://www.mirc.com/). It has all the features you mention, and then some.

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**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-irc-client-for-windows-xp/395812/3 "2007-03-13T23:15:18Z")

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Not an mIRC fan, but thanks. xircon was my client of choice back when I used IRC regularly, but that’s unsupported now and I don’t know anything about the modern clients other than the standard mIRC/Pirch etc., which don’t interest me.

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-irc-client-for-windows-xp/395812/4 "2007-03-13T23:18:13Z")

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Do you IM at all? Trillian has a fine IRC client built in, along with AOL, MSN, Yahoo and ICQ.

I switched to that from XIRCON when I wanted to consolidate my IM apps, and was perfectly happy.

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**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-irc-client-for-windows-xp/395812/5 "2007-03-14T03:12:23Z")

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Not sure what features it has (I’ve never really looked into it), but just thought I’d toss in HydraIRC, which is what I use–could never figure mIRC out.