[How To] Run More Than One Skype Instance

I just found this out today...maybe it is common knowledge and if so then sorry to waste your time. I have a couple Skype accounts that I use to help differentiate between business and personal relationships and it has always been a pain monitoring more than one account at a time, until today I found out you can run more than one Skype instance without any complicated extra Windows users.

Run multiple Skype instances

1) Run Skype, login to Account #1
2) Go to your Start button > Run
3) Type "C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe"/secondary
4) Login to Account #2

If your Skype is not in that directory, change it to wherever your Skype.exe is. The key is the /secondary at the end.

To make your life easier, I guess you could add that code to the Target properties box on a second Skype shortcut on your desktop as well.

Nice tip!

I assume then it automatically change the port number it uses then.

http://multi-skype-launcher.com/

That's a twisted trick

Yes, it's old news. It's even available on the official website.

ShadeDream said:

Yes, it's old news. It's even available on the official website.

Code:

https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA829/how-can-i-run-multiple-skype-accounts-on-windows-desktop

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Old news to most of us, but actual news to some others.