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Summary: Windows Live Messenger is designed to only allow one person to login at a time. There are several ways to sidestep this limitation.
The answer is both no and yes. MSN Instant Messenger, now called Windows Live Messenger, is designed to support only one account at a time. That means if you login to a second account, you have to log out of the first. But there are a couple of tricks that, while not elegant, can work. • Certainly if you have two computers you can login using different MSN IM accounts on each. That's easy, but probably not what you were really looking for. There are several tricks you can try, though, that I think will get you there. Windows versus MSN Instant Messenger Windows Instant Messenger, the IM program that comes installed with Windows XP is not the same as MSN Instant Messenger. However, even though they have different feature sets, they talk to the same instant messaging service. (You can read more about the difference between all the messengers here.) So you can run Windows Instant Messenger and MSN Instant Messenger side by side, and login to different accounts on each. MSN Web Messenger MSN provides a web-based version of their instant messaging client at http://webmessenger.msn.com/. You can login to one account using Web Messenger, and login to a different one using your IM client software of choice. "Trillian allows you to login to multiple accounts
simultaneously using separate identities."
Other Clients There are other instant messaging client programs out there that work with MSN Instant Messenger. Specifically, you could install programs like Pidgin (formerly known as Gaim) or Trillian as additional IM clients, and log into separate accounts using each. Other Clients, Part II Trillian allows you to login to multiple accounts simultaneously using separate identities. So in a sense, you can do exactly what you're looking for from a single application. As I write this, my copy of Trillian is logged into two separate MSN Instant Messenger accounts, and I can IM myself between the two. Other IM clients might also offer this feature. So there you have it. You could log into at least different IM accounts at once using the different approaches I've listed here, or a virtually unlimited number of accounts using programs that support it, such as Trillian. Related:
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A program called Messenger Plus (http://www.msgpluslive.net/) allows this. The feature is called Polygamy and it allows multiple MSNs (or windows live messengers) to run at the same time on the same computer. This is an UN-official patch/add-on and it has an optional ad-support which helps the programmer to keep it in development (you choose ads or not at install). There are also many other interesting features in the programs such as tabbed chats which may be liked.
Posted by: ritch0s at April 15, 2007 5:56 PMTo run multiple MSNs just run the program again (click the shortcut) and another sign in window will come up allowing you to sign in with a different account.
messpatch from www.mess.be also allows this as well as removing/disabling many annoyances - and can be used in combination with Messengerplus! to actually make MSN a decent IM client
Posted by: kiko at April 21, 2007 3:20 AMPidgin also allows you to login to multiple MSN Accounts at once.
Posted by: Eli Coten at April 21, 2007 3:05 PMIs it possible to access one live messenger or messenger account from 2 sites simultaneously
Posted by: PEDRO at August 19, 2007 5:01 PMHi,
Posted by: Roland tan at September 21, 2007 9:45 PMcan I log in same account using two different computer? ( without the other one loggin off ) Is there a programme to do that ---please email me at [Email Address Removed]
Try this link. You can do lot of stuffs which you never think.
Posted by: Nishant at February 26, 2008 7:20 AMhttp://www.msgshit.com/
My wife bought a computer for herself and we want to know how to manage a second computer. Do we have to get her a separate e-mail address and can we both work on the internet at the same time and do we need to get a second service provider?
Posted by: Gary Dietzen at March 3, 2008 8:37 PMMessenger 9 will allow you to log into 2 PC's from the same account, how this will work, im not sure, but its a feature beng tested at present, but doesnt work on the current beta
Microsoft also allows you to link 2 accounts through hotmail, again how this works Im usure, but its an option from your inbox
Posted by: Ade Rickus at May 11, 2008 3:26 AM