Simple hack to run multiple version of Google talk

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Few days back we talked about how you can always stay idle in Google talk using Galwaysidle.

This simple Google talk hack will help you to run multiple instances of Google talk in your desktop.

If you use different profile of Google talk for personal and professional use. This little trick will be very useful for you.

Right click on your Google talk shortcut , Under properties> Shortcut>Target

You will see :

C:Program FilesGoogleGoogle Talkgoogletalk.exe

Change the Target to

C:Program FilesGoogleGoogle Talkgoogletalk.exe /nomutex

Now whenever you will click on Google talk shortcut, you will open a new instance of Google talk messenger.

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1 Nihar May 5, 2009 at 11:51: Its a great hack. I have done this few months back and also published a post on this.

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2 Puneet May 5, 2009 at 13:18: Cool hack..i dint know about this one, though i knew about how to be invisible in gtalk.