Running Multiple Instances of Google Talk (GTalk Polygamy) and Login as Multi Users

Other than Windows Live (MSN) Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger, users of Google Talk (GTalk) can also let Google Talk go to polygamy, that’s running multiple instances of Google Talk and login to multiple Google accounts on Google Talk. The polygamy trick can be done without any crack, patch or hack, with just a simple command line parameter or switch (/nomutex) appended to the Google Talk shortcut.

Ability to polygamy running multiple Google Talk is useful if users have multiple Google Talk accounts (or Google or Gmail accounts that used to login to GTalk) or multiple profiles or personalities, and don’t want to log on and off from one account to another account every time when want to switch, or want to log in to all accounts at the same time on the same computer.

You can add the /nomutex switch or parameter to existing Google Talk shortcut, or create a new shortcut with the /nomutex command line parameter.

To edit existing Google Talk shortcut:

  1. Right click on the Google Talk shortcut.
  2. On the right click contextual menu, click on Properties.
  3. Go to Shortcut tab on Google Talk Properties window.
  4. On the Target textbox, add in the /nomutex to the end of the line so that it looks like below (or you can simply copy and paste the below syntax and replace the original).

    “c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex

  5. Click on OK.

To create a new shortcut for Google Talk:

  1. Right-click on the desktop or anywhere you want to place the GTalk shortcut.
  2. Select New on the right click context menu.
  3. Then select Shortcut.
  4. Copy and paste the following line to the text box when prompted to type the location of the item:

    “c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex

  5. Click on Next.
  6. Give the shortcut a proper name such as Google Talk or Google Talk Multiple or Google Talk Polygamy.
  7. Click OK until you are done.

If you have hex editor, you can act like a hacker and modify the bits in Google Talk program so that it will always allow multiple instances of GTalk to be launched whether the /nomutex switch is specified or not.

Launch hex editor and open googletalk.exe, then search for the following patterns in the hex editor:

004536FD . 3BC6 CMP EAX,ESI
004536FF . 75 05 JNZ SHORT googleta.00453706

Modify the string to look like the following:

004536FD . 8BC1 MOV EAX,ECX
004536FF . EB 05 JMP SHORT googleta.00453706


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14 Responses to “Running Multiple Instances of Google Talk (GTalk Polygamy) and Login as Multi Users”

  1. ratnesh
    November 22nd, 2009 03:20
    14

    chat in gmail is disabled in my college…is there any way to get out of it..actually no other chat site is opening up too

  2. mann
    September 16th, 2009 22:40
    13

    Amazing, thanks for this. How did you come to know about this?

  3. Harman
    April 14th, 2009 23:05
    12

    Thanks a lot
    it works perfect…

  4. MUHAMMAD FAIZAN
    February 22nd, 2009 09:06
    11

    good trick yara

  5. sushant
    January 11th, 2009 17:05
    10

    it really worked.thanks

  6. devesh
    November 19th, 2008 02:49
    9

    not working in vista

  7. Yasir
    October 28th, 2008 16:21
    8

    Cool thank you dear u r genius…

  8. DJ
    July 25th, 2008 18:17
    7

    Thanks for the information.. this is great..

  9. Ice 9 Web
    July 25th, 2008 11:08
    6

    nice information on this Google talk i really needed multiple account log in (^_^) thanks

    can i repost this on my blog?

  10. alex
    June 25th, 2008 05:35
    5

    what hex editor do I need to use? because I cannot find the hex patterns you’ve mentioned.

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    November 27th, 2007 17:58
    4

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  12. tomas zaw
    June 9th, 2007 17:16
    3

    thanks
    bro

    you technic is brillant and good usable for me

    thank alot and god save you

  13. sat
    May 28th, 2007 13:32
    2

    any good hex editor you recommend…..

  14. Ben
    December 14th, 2006 02:16
    1

    Here is the another real-use for using /nomutex

    http://www.benh.org/techblog/2006/08/google-talk-conference-calling-tips.html

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