Running two MSN clients on one PC:

[kapovski]

My wife and I both use MSN on our home PC. Is there a way to have two MSN clients open (each with a different login) at the same time on one PC?

 

[Kronik]

You could use the web messenger and the one installed on your pc....

 

[bwana]

I've done it with skype in XP. Perhaps the same procedure might work with MSN?

http://support.skype.com/index.php?_a=knowledgebase&_j=questiondetails&_i=829

 

[Gunny]

I use msn for my personal ID and trillian for my business ID.

 

[w1z4rd]

aMSN, another free alternatives will work.

 

[krycor]

doesn't msn plus! allow that? I got that app/addon makes lots of cool things possible but never quite figured out multiple accounts.

 

[Abe]

My wife and I both use MSN on our home PC. Is there a way to have two MSN clients open (each with a different login) at the same time on one PC?

Trillian will allow you to do this:

http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/

 

[tian.]

Using A-Patch you can patch windows live messenger to allow more than one instance, remove ads, and a whole lot of other stuff...

http://apatch.org/

 

[edc]

Use aMSN or gaim alongside your normal windows client. Both are free open-source apps. aMSN provides webcam support, gaim provides support for any IM protocol.

 

[diabolus]

Use a multi protocol messenger like Trillian or GAIM . Then just create all your MSN accounts in there and off you go. [obviously this applies to all other protocols too, i.e. multiple google talk accounts etc].

On a side note, you can run multiple instances [different accounts] of Google Talk by running it with "/nomutex" commandline paramater [just edit your shortcut].

 

[XCalibre]

I've just tried tians advice using www.apatch.org When you run it you've got alot of options like removing the add bar at the bottom etc. and there's one option that you can install that enables you to run 2 of more instances of windows live messenger.

Then you don't have to use any other messenger protocols.

 

[cybershark]

Mess Patch polygamy

www.mess.be

 

[kapovski]

ok own up guys ... how many of you have chatted to yourselves once you installed it?

 

[Gunny]

er nope looks like you the only one

 

[bwana]

ok own up guys ... how many of you have chatted to yourselves once you installed it?

Um - no - we dont talk to ourselves. I think thats why we get along with myself so well.

 

[Abe]

ok own up guys ... how many of you have chatted to yourselves once you installed it?

Yes, but not online, I wouldn't waste bandwidth doing it

 

[krycor]

my brother does that with mxit and his gtalk sometimes.. until oneday he left his login on the laptop and i messed with him i never logged it so he thought he was going crazy too