Friday, June 6, 2008

How to run multiple instances of Gtalk

Here is a simple trick which enables to run multiple instances of Gtalk making you get online with different accounts at same time.
  1. Right Click on your Gtalk shortcut.[Remember only this shortcut will run multiple instances,others wont be able to unless you edit their properties same as we are going to do now]
  2. Now go to properties
  3. In the target box,you will find something like this "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe"
  4. Now add -nomutex at the end of text in Target with a space.It will now become like "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" -nomutex.im showing the same in the figure also
  5. Click Ok and you are done
Now double click on the shortcut and you will see one more instance of Gtalk running on your PC.You can do the same even for other gtalk shortcuts in your pc.

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