Multiple Instances of Google Talk On The Same Machine At The Same Time

Google Talk allows you to run only one instance of it, at a time on a single PC. There are times when we have multiple Google accounts and basically wanna run 2 or more instances of Google Talk on the same machine.

The simple and effective way to do it is by not enabling a mutex when Gtalk is started in the first instance.

The method to do it

1) Left Click your mouse on the desktop to bring up the contextual window.

2) Highlight the new option.

3) A Sub menu comes up, where you would find a menu item called Shortcut

4) Click on it.

5) Now a window pops up & there would be a text field that you would need to fill, this basically is the location of Google Talk on your machine.

6) If you can find the exe on your machine great, or else paste the following text

7) "C:\ Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex

8) I am assuming that you have installed Google talk in the default directory.

9) Click NEXT

10) Now change the name of the Shortcut to whatever you feel like, Ex googletalk_multiple.

11) Click Finish


Viola, your done :-) Now every time you click the shortcut, a new instance of Google talk starts up, for you to login to as many multiple users as you need to.

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