Category: Internet – Instant Messengers (12)

Synopsis: Miranda IM is a multi-protocol instant messenger client. By default, it supports AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN and Jabber. But it has a powerful plugin system where it can be extended to support almost any other protocol you can throw at it, include Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu, Netsend, Skype etc. The plugin system is not limited to protocol support. You can find plugins for almost anything you can think of, including RSS feed reader, weather alert, world clock etc.

You may also like to check out Miranda IM Portable for a portable package of Miranda IM that is optimized for USB memory sticks.

Writes settings to: Application folder. Write application folder path to HKLMSoftwareMiranda.

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Edit mirandaboot.ini and change:

ProfileDir=%APPDATA%Miranda
to:
ProfileDir=.
Launch miranda32.exe.

There is a full range of plugins available for Miranda. Simply copy the plugin DLL to the Plugins subfolder, then restart the program.

Stealth [?]: No

Unicode support: Yes. Starting from V0.5, Unicode support is added. There are now two versions of Miranda IM you can choose from. The Unicode version works only on WinNT/2K/XP. The non-Unicode version works on Win9x/ME.

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista