Program Cloning

The Truth · #1 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 · #2 09-27-2005, 04:42 AM

Depends.

Some programs are set to only let 1 instance of a program run.

The Truth · #3 09-27-2005, 06:04 AM

no way to side step that?

-blake

TheTROLL · #4 09-27-2005, 07:20 AM

Fast user switching in XP is a possible workaround.

Details here.

Dave G. · #5 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.)