Google Talk: Run Multiple Instances or Login as Multiple Users

Contributed by MickeyMouse August 24, 2005  
Tagged: Google

If you have several google talk accounts, you may want to run multiple instances of google talk at once. Here’s how to do it.

Many users, including myself, like to have several different personalities on IM–Work, play, etc. By default google talk with only allow you to run instance of the program at a time. Here’s how to get around that…

Run google talk with the following switch: /nomutex

If you installed google talk to the default location, you can easily create a shortcut to this setting.

1. Right-click on the desktop
2. Select New
3. Select Shortcut
4. Paste this into the text box:
"c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex

5. Click Next6. Name it whatever: Google Talk Multiple, etc.
7. Click OK until you are done.

Hats off to the neowin forum for the original idea:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=363145&st=0