Multiple Skype Accounts on one computer?
A few weeks ago a guy skyped me and I first thought, that he might wants to spam me with something to sell. Actually he is writing a book about Skype and was asking some questions, which I was only partly able to answer.
He seems to be much more familiar with all the little Skype tricks and he writes in his blog about these.
One trick I found extremly helpful: it lets you run multiple skypes on one machine - it is a dirty hack, but if you are the admin on your box, you might want to try it:
- Create a new windows user with admin rights (e.g. “skype2″)
- Create a link on your desktop with the following destination: %windir%\system32\RUNAS.exe /profile “/user:skype2″ /savecred “C:\Program Files\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe”
A click on that link will open a second skype for the user “skype2″ with its own profile!
I have not tried to place 2 simultaneous calls, but that should not work, if they use the same resources… you might let me know!
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April 7th, 2007 at 1:21 am
Yes - it worked. I have three different accounts opened right now (using XP) and I called a landline with two seperate accounts at the same time.
April 7th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
For some reason mine didn’t work. Don’t know why…
April 22nd, 2007 at 2:37 pm
The automated link didn’t work for me either
But you can right click on the skype icon and click Run As and then choose your skype2 admin user (must have password)
July 10th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
You’re wonderful! Thank you! This works aces.
August 8th, 2007 at 6:20 am
Thank you so much! After years of awkwardly juggling with skype accounts, you finally showed me the way…
One issue I have - whenever I want to start skype with the secondary account (ie., as another user than the one I’m already logged on to Windows with) an ugly old dosbox prompts the password of the other windows user.
Is there a way I can get rid of this ? (without creating another windows user with admin rights with no password protection, that is.)
Thank you in advance.
Thomas
August 8th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Update
I just found that the tricks works with a password-free “guest” account, too. It still brings up the dos-box, though.
Thomas
October 15th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
yes, I am that guy and somebody else told me. We have even written a program for it.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:22 am
Hi
i tried it its great it works on my pc but when i try the same thing on other friends pc it does not i dont know wat the problem is but its really great
November 14th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
I actually get an error message, when I use the destination above on win xp sp2 (german). Deleting the quotation marks around “/user:skype2″ however fixes this issue.
December 12th, 2007 at 12:00 am
hi all,
I have installed skype. but am unable to run that. The skype name box is black as i cant type anything. can anyone tell me any solution.
December 24th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
For some reason it didn’t work on my computer… Could it be that Windows Vista isn’t suitable for that?
January 4th, 2008 at 7:29 am
It works on XP but does’t work on VISTA. Please help running on vista.
January 19th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
yeah its not working in Vista ….,
any body have a solution for that …………….
waiting for reply
Sam
January 20th, 2008 at 8:29 am
See here:
http://www.tradebit.com/channels/software/110692/multiple-skype-accounts-on-windows-vista/
February 7th, 2008 at 6:07 am
how do I Create a link on my desktop?
February 8th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Hey guys.. great.. I also get connected my two accounts at same time at same PC. thanks a lot bros.
February 14th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
i cant make the link
pls help me
February 17th, 2008 at 12:24 am
How do i Create the link? Are you talking about creating a shortcut?
February 19th, 2008 at 5:07 am
%windir%\system32\RUNAS.exe /profile “/user:skypehaihai” /savecred “C:\Program Files\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe”
May 20th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Hello Everyone,
I have found the solution to this question. I have used this software and it really works on windows Xp and Vista.
Please visit the following link
http://www.freewebs.com/davidcartnor/softwares.htm
Its very easy all we have to do is to pay one time $10.00 as donation to this user and have to subscribe to his site in order for him to make sure that he send the software to the right email address.
I did this and i am really enjoying skype much better than earlier.
Thanks
Brad
June 10th, 2008 at 8:33 am
dont work on mine…here’s my own…
i run a private and a prime skype simultaneously…
1. make sure to have another user account
2. open file directory to where skype has been installed..
(ex. C:\Program Files\Skype\Phone\)
3. right click skype.exe and choose run as..
4. choose another account and password then ok
hope it help..
June 17th, 2008 at 10:45 am
actually, this is for free:
http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=88055
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Hi Can you help me
I have never used skype credit before - I have used skype as a skype to skype only before successfully- here’s my problem - I paid for credit on one account and when I went to use it I could not make any calls then I noticed the the account that purchased the credit was different form the account that showed up on the dial in page where you enter the ld # = so I must have registered another skpe account sometime ago - but this account has no money in it - it is in the first account - so I do I switch to my account that has the money in it ?
hopefully you may know the answer - thanks