Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Multiple instances of Skype

Ever wanted to run multiple instances of Skype without having to download third party multi messengers, here is how you can do that for windows and Mac

On your PC open a command prompt and type


cd /

cd "Program Files (x86)"
cd Skype
cd Phone

skype.exe /secondary /username:your-username /password:your-password



On your MAC open a terminal

ehmedk$ cd /Applications/Skype.app/Contents/MacOS/
ehmedk$ sudo ./Skype

Type in your password and you have sucessfully started another instance of skype on your computer