Sukhbir Singh

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Archive for May 26th, 2006

Run Multiple Instances of GTalk

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If you've got many Gmail accounts and don't want to keep logging on and off them every time you switch, a simple command line parameter in the Google Talk shortcut can solve your problem.

  • First, create one copy of the Google Talk shortcut on your desktop – leave the original intact.
  • Right click on this shortcut and choose Properties. The Target box will show you the path of the EXE for Google Talk – something like "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe"
  • Change this to: "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex
    and click OK.

{ FOR SCREENSHOT, CLICK HERE }

You will now be able to run multiple instances of Google Talk with different identities for each.

Written by Sukhbir

May 26, 2006 at 8:00 pm