Upgrading from the non-suite version

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•If you are upgrading from the original standalone (non-suite) mircryption products:

 

In prior versions, mircryption files were kept in the main mirc directory.  MircryptionSuite now keeps all flies in a dedicated subdirectory of mirc.

 

First, exit mirc and copy the contents of the IntallFiles directory directly into your mIrc directory, so that the MircryptionSuite.chm help file resides in your root mirc directory, where you can access it from the main Help menu, and all other files reside in a subdirectory of mirc called mircryption (mirc by default is installed at C:\Program Files\Mirc).

 

Second, move your old mircryption key file MircryptionKeys.txt, and your mircryptionpgp config file mpgp.ini from the mirc directory to the new mircryption subdirectory, and move your entire PgpKeys subdirectory into the new mircryption subdirectory.

 

Important: do *not* use the mircryption menu-based uninstall function on the old version, or you will erase configuration variables that you may want to transfer to the new version.

 

Next, delete the old mircryption files from the root mirc directory.  These files can include:

mircryption.mrc

mircryption.dll

mpgp.mrc

Mpgp.dll

frontend.exe

entropyhooks.dll

prngcore.dll

smf.dll

mcboard.mrc

REMEMBER! -> Don't delete your MIrcryptionKeys.txt file! that file holds all your channel keys.  Simply move it into the new mircryption subdir.

 

Then to inform mirc about the new addons, do the following:

1.Start mirc, and type into the status window editbox (and then hit enter): /load -rs mircryption/mircryption.mrc
2.Then type: /load -rs mircryption/mpgp.mrc
3.Then type: /load -rs mircryption/mcboard.mrc
4.Mirc has an option to prevent dlls from being used (for extra security). To use Mircryption, you need to enable dlls.  Hit alt-O for options and select the last entry, General->Lock.  If the "Disable Commands->/Dll" option is checked, uncheck it.  If you forget to enable DLL use, you will see the error "* Identifier locked in options dialog: $dll" all over the place.
5.Hit alt-R and select menu item File->Order.  Move the mircryption scripts to the top of the list, so that they are executed first among any scripts you have installed.