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 Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe”
  3. Change this to: “C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.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.

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9 Comments to “How to open multiple Google Talk on a single PC”
  1. Louie says:

    This is a great trick. :D I’m using Pidgin for multiple google talk and multiple IMs but I’m still going to give this a try just for the heck of it. Thanks for the trick. :)

  2. Nihar says:

    @Louie, Yep i also came to know this trick few days back. It is a great trick

  3. Rohit says:

    Really useful to manage my multiple accounts. Will implement it. Nice trick

    Rohits last blog post..My Blog clone was being made!

  4. Nihar says:

    @Rohit, I have already done this and using two gtalk’s at a time on my PC…

  5. Chetan says:

    Thats really great trick,
    now i can stay online on my all Gmail IDs

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