For some reasons we  may have more than one Yahoo account and want to chat or interact with different online buddies at once from each of those accounts. There are actually a heck of multi instant messaging applications that let you login to more than one Yahoo Messenger and even login to different instant messaging services such as Gtalk, MSN, AOL etc. One such application is Pidgin which lets you chat using different messaging platform and different IDs, creating multiple instances of Yahoo messenger.

Please note: This trick does not work on Yahoo Messenger 11 and above

Run multiple instances of Yahoo Messenger using such a cross-platform through a third party multi messenger application is in some way not a preferred choice for some who want to make full use of Yahoo Messenger services  since it deprives you of some additional features such as internet radio. With a simple trick and without a third party application  you can have a multiple instances of YM.

Yahoo Messenger Tricks :  Tweaking Registry.

Caution : Before you proceed, you’re strongly advices to backup your windows registry just in case you mistakenly mess up with it. You may use such program as CC Cleaner or other similar tools to do the job, save the registry backup on separate hard drive.

  • Open windows registry editor by opening the command prompt menu, in Windows XP you do that by typing “regedit” (without quote) in following sequence : Start —–> Run

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  • Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE —> Software—-> Yahoo pager—>Test. Right Click somewhere in the empty space  on the right pane  —>New— DWORD . Rename the newly-created registry value to Plural
  • Twice click Plural registry change its value to 2. Don’t forget to check the Decimal instead of Hexadecimal

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  • Close the registry editor and the run Yahoo Messenger then login with your first YM account. After you’re connected using the first Yahoo Messenger account then click on its icon and login with your second one. You should now be able to login to multiple Yahoo Messenger

Multi Yahoo Messenger By Tweaking Windows Registry

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