Today while browsing, I found a hack about two most popular instant messengers (chatting clients); Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk. This Simple Hack allows you to Run multiple instances (more then one) of Yahoo Messenger and Google talk simultaneously on one PC. Yes!! I am not joking.. You can open more than one instance of any of them, working in parallel.
FOR YAHOO MESSENGER
- Go to Start >> Run >>
- Type regedit >> press Enter
- Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER >> Software >> Yahoo >> pager >> Test
- Then Right click on test >> choose New >> Dword value .
- Rename it as ‘Plural’.
- Double click it >> assign a decimal value of 1.
- Close the registry and Restart yahoo messenger.
Hey Its All Done!! Now you can open ‘N’ instances of yahoo messenger and login into each from different yahoo ID.
FOR GOOGLE TALK
- Create a shortcut of Google Talk messenger on your desktop or any other location.
- Right click on the Google Talk messenger icon and select properties option
- Modify target location text from this “c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /startmenu to “c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex
- Then Click OK!!
Now you can run multiple instances of Google talk . As far as system security is concerned, I don’t think any of the above tricks can harm the computer. But still you can have some precautionary measure before trying it.
There are some other methods are also if you dont want to take any chance on your system. Use PIDGIN. Pidgin is a desktop chatting client and very easily configurable, After installing it you will not need Yahoo Messenger , MSN messnger or Gtalk etc. Just use Pidgin for signing into everyone. And Ofcourse you can have 2 or more yahoo accounts running simultaneously.
Choice is All Yours.
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