Adventures in Tech

Logon to dual gtalk accountsToday I found a very neat little trick today with the google gtalk client which allows you to logon to multiple gtalk accounts at the same time.

If you start the gtalk.exe with the /nomutex flag it will allow you to load multiple different instances of the program. Hence your able to logon to two (or more) gtalk accounts from the single machine while only having the one client installed once!!

In my case I just updated my start menu icon target to "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /startmenu /nomutex

Hats off to Google! Good work boys, smart design!

Caveman