Open multiple Yahoo Messenger windows on a single PC

Posted on August 16, 2008 at 5:29 am

People love to chat, especially these days since they can now talk to, hear and see someone who is miles away from you. Nowadays, the most popular chat program is of course the Yahoo messenger. With the ability to create new profiles with Yahoo, wouldn’t it be nice if you could use this program with different IDs concurrently on a single PC? Thankfully, there is a solution. Here are the steps:

First, you will need to access the registry editor to change the properties of the Yahoo Messenger program. To do that you need to click on the start button, go to run and type regedit in the box then press OK. You will then get this page.

From the registry editor locate the HKEY_CURRENT _USER folder and go to the Software folder. Next, you need to look for the Yahoo folder and click on pager. Right click your mouse and click on the DWORD option.

Change the value name to plural and you may choose form numbers one to three for the value number. And click the OK button to save the changes done.

There you may now enjoy a multiple messenger. Enjoy chatting!

People with multiple personality disorder will especially prefer this hack. Users sharing the same computer could also benefit with this tip.

You can also check out the article I did on Trillian and Digsby which allows you to have multiple messenger accounts on the same PC (the downside is that you won’t have all of the features of Yahoo! messenger but will work for most chatting needs): http://www.online-tech-tips.com/?s=trillian

Also, I had written a post earlier on how to log into Yahoo and Gtalk with multiple accounts on the same computer using a special command line function, so be sure to check that out .

Ben Carigtan writes about technology and how to get the most out of them!

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9 Responses to “Open multiple Yahoo Messenger windows on a single PC”

Gravity said on : August 16th, 2008 at 8:01 am

thnx alot. i really needed that.

Charles said on : August 16th, 2008 at 10:14 am

I tried that follwed the instructions for that multiple yahoo messenger windows but it does not work. I have windows vista.
Please help

fahad said on : August 16th, 2008 at 11:11 am

Hey there,
sir i tried the same procedure but didn’t work can you please help me out.

akishore said on : August 16th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

Hmmm Actually, to open multiple Yahoo Messengers, you need to go to the Test key under Pager and right click there and create the DWORD value of “Plural”, without the quotes. Then make the value of that 1.

So again, instead of creating the Plural key in pager, create it in Test, which is under pager and then give it a value of 1! Sorry about that!

techie said on : August 17th, 2008 at 1:00 am

Thanks akishore, that solved the problem for me.

rashmi said on : September 16th, 2008 at 5:08 am

i m trying to run multi yahoo messsenger..but when i go in start then run and then after typing regedit message come like registry editing has been disabled by your computer…

makelifeeasy08 said on : October 3rd, 2008 at 2:29 pm

hi guys can anyone help me here,

its not working for me…
im not clear with the steps…
when i go to reedit page ..
1.i can find the pager folder but i can find Test Key ?
2. create the DWORD value of “Plural”, without the quotes. Then make the value of that 1. (Done)
3. creating the Plural key in pager, create it in Test, which is under pager and then give it a value of 1 ????

im not clear with the 3th step.. did we need to create DWORD value again and name it Test???

Need yours help guys..

thanks.

Nyl said on : October 8th, 2008 at 7:09 am

Got it! Runs so well thanks!

ayie said on : October 11th, 2008 at 4:06 am

HKEY_CURRENT _USER > Software > Yahoo > Test > Pager > “new DWORD value”

**name it to Plural…edit and the value “1″..without the quotes