How to login with multiple email-id’s in gmail / gtalk

How to login with multiple email-id’s in gmail / gtalk

This post is only for google users (like me) who have multiple google accounts (or fake personalities ) and don’t want to sign in and out from one google account to another account whenever they want to switch their accounts , or those who want to log in to all google accounts at the same time on the same computer.

For Gtalk users

This can be done by running the multiple instances of Google Talk (gtalk) and signing into multiple Google accounts from each instance of the Google Talk. This polygamy trick can be done without any crack, just by appending a simple command line parameter ( /nomutex) to the Google Talk shortcut.

How to edit existing Google Talk shortcut for multiple sign-in :

Right click on the Google Talk shortcut.

On the right click contextual menu, click on Properties.

Then, Go to Shortcut tab on Google Talk Properties window.

On the Target textbox , add ” /nomutex” to the end of the line so that it follows this syntax : “PATH OF THE GOOGLE TALK EXECUTABLE” /nomutex. Note the space between the inverted comma and the backslash.

In windows XP , default path of the google talk executable is : “c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe”. In windows vista and windows 7 , it is : “C:\Users\USER NAME\AppData\Roaming\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe”. Therefore XP users can directly paste this into the Target textbox of their gtalk shortcut : “c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex .

For Vista and 7 users, replace the text in target textbox of the shortcut with : “C:\Users\USER NAME\AppData\Roaming\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex. Replace user name with your account name on our windows.

The above paths are default paths when we install google talk in windows. If one want to change the path of the installation can change it to his/her defined path.

Click on OK.

To create a new shortcut for Google Talk :

Right-click on the desktop or anywhere you want to place the GTalk shortcut.

Select New on the right click context menu.

Then select Shortcut.

Windows XP users, 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 Windows vista and 7 users can now determine from above what to paste in the text box. Or you can manually find locate the executable using the browse option on the side of the text-box Click on Next.

Give the shortcut a proper name such as Google Talk or Google Talk Multiple or Google Talk Polygamy.

Click OK when you are done.

One can locate the executable and then right click on it and then click on create shortcut. Then modify the target textbox of shortcut (as explained above). Cut/copy and paste the shortcut to your desired location.

Now click on Gtalk shortcut and Enjoy as many Multiple logins as you want. HAPPY CHATING.

For Advanced Users only

If you have hex editor (only some have it) , 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

For Gmail users

Because of all the above shit , google has now started the technique of multiple log-in by default for some google products (like Gmail) for users like me. Just Login into your gmail account (you might know atleast this). On the top-right of the gmail-window it will be displaying your email-id and an down arrow. Just click on it , it will open a drop down list of the accounts in which you are currently logged in. For those, whose gmail-window doesn’t show the down arrow in the top-right corner, don’t worry, you will soon get a solution for this problem in this post only.

Since you are reading this post , the list will be including only your account which will be the default one for using other google products. If you want to login into other gmail account for chating (or reading mails or …….), just click on ”Sign in to another account “. This will hopefully open a gmail login window in a new tab in your browser. Just login with another (another means other than default one ) email-id and password. If your email-id and password are correct, then you will be logged into another gmail account. Check out the email-id on the top-right corner of the gmail window and the drop down list also.

But the bad thing in gmail is that if you sign-off from one account , you will be signed off from all the accounts (Hopefully this doesn’t happens in gtalk till now). One day ,Google will come for a solution for this bug also.

There are also google users (like you) who can’t get a drop-down list since there is no down arrow next to email-id on the top-right corner (Because when google asked you whether you want multiple sign-in or not , you said “NO” because of laziness). So if you now want multiple sign-in , go to the google-account settings (out of many ways one is to click on this link and you will try only this way).

In the Personal settings of our account, there is a option for mutiple sign-in. Click on the edit option for multiple sign-in if it is showing “off” (else read the above post again). Please read all the instructions carefully (so that you don’t blame me for any problem in future). Select ”ON” option (after reading instructions) and then save.

P.S 1: Don’t forget to leave comments if it works.

P.S 2: Note the space between the inverted comma and backslash in the target textbox of the gtalk-shortcut.

P.S 3: Always check your account at the top right to make sure that you are using the account you want and not chatting ( or sending email …….) from another account.

P.S 4: Only Some of the google products ( Calendar, Code, Gmail, Reader, Sites, Voice ) supports multiple sign-in.