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How to open multiple Google Talk on a single PC


If you have got two people wanting to login to their Gmail account to access Gtalk and chat with their friends on a single PC. What do you do ?

You try Logging in chat with friends after sometime log out and have the other person logging and chat.

Here is the tip to have multiple instances of Google Talk:

  1. Create one copy of the Google Talk shortcut on your desktop – leave the original intact.
  2. 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 FilesGoogleGoogle Talkgoogletalk.exe”
  3. Change this to: “C:Program FilesGoogleGoogle Talkgoogletalk.exe” /nomutex
    and click OK.
Multiple instances of Google Talk on single PC

multiple GTalks on single PC

After you do the above, You will be able to run multiple instances of Google Talk with different identities for each.