Monday, January 19, 2009

How to open multiple instances of Google Talk

It's frustrating when you share a single PC at your home with your family. By default Google Talk allows only one user to sign in at a time. Here's how you can have multiple instances of Gtalk open to sign in with different accounts.

1) Browse to the directory where you installed Google Talk: C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk

2) Select the file named 'googletalk.exe' and create a shortcut for it.

3) Open the properties for the shortcut and append its target location with /nomutex

The target: should look like this; "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex

4) Now run this shortcut whenever you require to open another instance of Google Talk

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