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The Truth
09-27-2005, 02:56 AM
Is there an effective method to open a program more than one time? For instance, say I wanted to have 2 instances of a computer program, maybe poker stars, running on 1 computer. Is there a way to open the program twice?


thanks
blake
zephed
09-27-2005, 04:42 AM
Depends.

Some programs are set to only let 1 instance of a program run.
The Truth
09-27-2005, 06:04 AM
no way to side step that?


-blake
TheTROLL
09-27-2005, 07:20 AM
Fast user switching in XP is a possible workaround.

Details here (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279765&sd=tech).
Dave G.
09-27-2005, 07:24 AM
The programs themseleves are written to detect another instance of that program running. It's not a Windows setting or anything, so you can't really get around it. (One could write a DLL hook application to try and fool the program into thinking the first doesn't exist, but this would be tricky, a lot of effort, and still may not end up working.)