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		<title>By: Martin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>it seems to doesnt work on xp sp3 :(</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it seems to doesnt work on xp sp3 <img src='http://www.makeuseof.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: sachin shrivas</title>
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		<dc:creator>sachin shrivas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You may use &lt;a href=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; &lt;abbr title=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;acronym title=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;b&gt; &lt;blockquote cite=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;cite&gt; &lt;code&gt; &lt;del datetime=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;em&gt; &lt;i&gt; &lt;q cite=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;strike&gt; &lt;strong&gt; in your comment.</description>
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		<title>By: alandu</title>
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		<dc:creator>alandu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>mine just says: run as administrator

how do u do it???</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mine just says: run as administrator</p>
<p>how do u do it???</p>
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		<title>By: tarek</title>
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		<dc:creator>tarek</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>on windowa xp :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>on windowa xp <img src='http://www.makeuseof.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: tarek</title>
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		<dc:creator>tarek</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>taro ,thanks very good programe that Sandboxie ,i can now run the same program twice and play my games with 2 acounts at teh same time,i recomend it .lol</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>taro ,thanks very good programe that Sandboxie ,i can now run the same program twice and play my games with 2 acounts at teh same time,i recomend it .lol</p>
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		<title>By: x@!n†™²³</title>
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		<dc:creator>x@!n†™²³</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>for vista its so easy...just creat another account or activate your guest account..then after that go to your start up...and cho0s the switch user botton...their you go..wahahaha

i was able to open 2 wc3 wahahaha!!!!

remember to njot log out your real account!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>for vista its so easy&#8230;just creat another account or activate your guest account..then after that go to your start up&#8230;and cho0s the switch user botton&#8230;their you go..wahahaha</p>
<p>i was able to open 2 wc3 wahahaha!!!!</p>
<p>remember to njot log out your real account!</p>
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		<title>By: Rob K</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rob K</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This looks like something I&#039;m trying.  Has anyone got a program to run two sessions simultaneously with each session looking at a dedicated USB port?  I am trying to run a voice recording program to look after two phones via USB but only want to use a single PC.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This looks like something I&#8217;m trying.  Has anyone got a program to run two sessions simultaneously with each session looking at a dedicated USB port?  I am trying to run a voice recording program to look after two phones via USB but only want to use a single PC.</p>
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		<title>By: kimiaj</title>
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		<dc:creator>kimiaj</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This can&#039;t be use in windows vista.. I tried million times on how to run two or more same programs at the same time. I often to this in my old pc with XP OS. However, when I got new PC, I tried vista as it&#039;s OS.. Damn! I&#039;m really having hard time now doing the usual stuffs I know about when I still had the XP. I guess, I made a wrong choice for OS. It&#039;s as if now, I&#039;m a novice and computer illiterate. 

Can somebody help me how to run two same programs at the same time with Vista?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This can&#8217;t be use in windows vista.. I tried million times on how to run two or more same programs at the same time. I often to this in my old pc with XP OS. However, when I got new PC, I tried vista as it&#8217;s OS.. Damn! I&#8217;m really having hard time now doing the usual stuffs I know about when I still had the XP. I guess, I made a wrong choice for OS. It&#8217;s as if now, I&#8217;m a novice and computer illiterate. </p>
<p>Can somebody help me how to run two same programs at the same time with Vista?</p>
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		<title>By: xXx</title>
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		<dc:creator>xXx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hey i have a idea, but we need a pro in programming people. we can use autoit and make it can block some thing that block us open the same window.. but i no pro in programming autoit anyone can send me the command??</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hey i have a idea, but we need a pro in programming people. we can use autoit and make it can block some thing that block us open the same window.. but i no pro in programming autoit anyone can send me the command??</p>
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		<title>By: Frank</title>
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		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 15:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you want to use multiple msn accounts at the same time just go to iloveim.com

Welcome</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want to use multiple msn accounts at the same time just go to iloveim.com</p>
<p>Welcome</p>
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		<title>By: Spencer Wallsworth</title>
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		<dc:creator>Spencer Wallsworth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>MSN windows live messenger might worked, I still didn&#039;t get Guild Wars to show up more than once. Go to start &gt; All Programs &gt; windows live &gt; windows live messenger. Right click it, you will see run as.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MSN windows live messenger might worked, I still didn&#8217;t get Guild Wars to show up more than once. Go to start &gt; All Programs &gt; windows live &gt; windows live messenger. Right click it, you will see run as.</p>
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		<title>By: Taro</title>
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		<dc:creator>Taro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>An other solution:

Instead of making many accounts, download program named sandbox on http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?DownloadSandboxie

Once sandbox is installed, all you have to do is right-click on any programs you want and then select &quot;Run Sandboxed&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An other solution:</p>
<p>Instead of making many accounts, download program named sandbox on <a href="http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?DownloadSandboxie" rel="nofollow">http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?DownloadSandboxie</a></p>
<p>Once sandbox is installed, all you have to do is right-click on any programs you want and then select &#8220;Run Sandboxed&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Ralph</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ralph</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I use this to run Two Instances of Google Calendar Sync.

One syncs my work account 1-way (googleCal to Outlook)
Two syncs my personal gmail account 2ways.

Then I use NemuSync to sync my iphone with my online google personal account.

I do this because I don&#039;t work to see all my personal entries, and the iphone has no &quot;private&quot; entry capabilities, ++ I don I don&#039;t necessarily need or want my work calendar to reflect my personal entries since I manage the conflicts manually and I&#039;m always shuffling with work appointments being Priority number 1.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I use this to run Two Instances of Google Calendar Sync.</p>
<p>One syncs my work account 1-way (googleCal to Outlook)<br />
Two syncs my personal gmail account 2ways.</p>
<p>Then I use NemuSync to sync my iphone with my online google personal account.</p>
<p>I do this because I don&#8217;t work to see all my personal entries, and the iphone has no &#8220;private&#8221; entry capabilities, ++ I don I don&#8217;t necessarily need or want my work calendar to reflect my personal entries since I manage the conflicts manually and I&#8217;m always shuffling with work appointments being Priority number 1.</p>
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		<title>By: apekillape</title>
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		<dc:creator>apekillape</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ya, for gaming you definitely need to run vmware so you can have truly individual instances.  Otherwise you&#039;ll get a hell of a lot of other problems.

The original account suggestion helped me boatloads in running multiple instances of autoit though.  Thanks man!

N</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ya, for gaming you definitely need to run vmware so you can have truly individual instances.  Otherwise you&#8217;ll get a hell of a lot of other problems.</p>
<p>The original account suggestion helped me boatloads in running multiple instances of autoit though.  Thanks man!</p>
<p>N</p>
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		<title>By: Johnk</title>
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		<dc:creator>Johnk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m facing the same issue with BroqueW, but while using X-lite application. I have tried all of your suggestions, for Skype,X-lite,Outlook,WMplayer etc, without any success. Do you think that it has to do with the registry or any service that is not enabled?

Thanks</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m facing the same issue with BroqueW, but while using X-lite application. I have tried all of your suggestions, for Skype,X-lite,Outlook,WMplayer etc, without any success. Do you think that it has to do with the registry or any service that is not enabled?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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		<title>By: DAX</title>
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		<dc:creator>DAX</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>for none vista 64bit users JUST USE SANDBOXIE</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>for none vista 64bit users JUST USE SANDBOXIE</p>
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		<title>By: kiran</title>
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		<dc:creator>kiran</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>thank u darling..up to now im thinking installing a virtual box os like that something..

i have only 40gb ,,u saved me 2gb of space ..thank you</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>thank u darling..up to now im thinking installing a virtual box os like that something..</p>
<p>i have only 40gb ,,u saved me 2gb of space ..thank you</p>
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		<title>By: Matt</title>
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		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve been using this to run multiple instances of the windows timershot powertoy to record time lapse pictures from multiple webcams on the same computer. Works like a charm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been using this to run multiple instances of the windows timershot powertoy to record time lapse pictures from multiple webcams on the same computer. Works like a charm.</p>
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		<title>By: Joy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Can u run multiple instance of VPN on same machin??
Try it out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</description>
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Try it out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
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		<title>By: jake</title>
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		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>get a patch called - APatch</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>get a patch called &#8211; APatch</p>
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		<title>By: links for 2008-10-09 &#124; the markfr ditherings</title>
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		<dc:creator>links for 2008-10-09 &#124; the markfr ditherings</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] How To run Multiple Versions of the Same Program on your PC &#124; MakeUseOf.com (tags: windows tips productivity multiple program) [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] How To run Multiple Versions of the Same Program on your PC | MakeUseOf.com (tags: windows tips productivity multiple program) [...]</p>
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		<title>By: john</title>
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		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hi, this doesn&#039;t seem to work with vista. right click menu only has &#039;run as administrator&#039; no option to run program as another user. i tried loggin in as regular user and then running the prog as administrator but that didn&#039;t work either. anyone?

thanks</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hi, this doesn&#8217;t seem to work with vista. right click menu only has &#8216;run as administrator&#8217; no option to run program as another user. i tried loggin in as regular user and then running the prog as administrator but that didn&#8217;t work either. anyone?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
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		<title>By: Masti</title>
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		<dc:creator>Masti</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 10:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have been googling for this for last 2 hours and my search ends with this finest article. Many thanks its working with charm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been googling for this for last 2 hours and my search ends with this finest article. Many thanks its working with charm.</p>
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		<title>By: flossay</title>
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		<dc:creator>flossay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 05:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>for gaming i usually go into properties from the desktop icon and in the target line at the end add this ....   -multiple     .... it will only open multiple instances if you access from desktop icon =) have fun!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>for gaming i usually go into properties from the desktop icon and in the target line at the end add this &#8230;.   -multiple     &#8230;. it will only open multiple instances if you access from desktop icon =) have fun!</p>
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		<title>By: Dan Schafer</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dan Schafer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The simple answer for Windows gaming is No.  The reason is slightly complex, and a possible solution is even more-so complex.

I&#039;m guessing you are referring to full screen games, not windowed games like solitaire.  Unfortunately this is basically impossible to do with Windows.

Here is a little more detailed explanation.

Technical Background: Windows handles multi-monitors like so.  In WindowsXP there is a Primary monitor, and additional monitors may be enabled by extending the desktop to include these additional monitors.  With a proprietary video card control panel and driver, these additional monitors can also be &quot;clones&quot; of the primary monitor, but there is still only one Primary monitor.

Problem #1:  Games are generally programmed to run only on the Primary monitor.  If the game does support multi-monitor (think flight sims), it usually spans across all the monitors.  Say you have a Flight Sim running and subsequently load Madden.  Madden will minimize the Flight Sim, and only run itself on the Primary monitor, blanking out the other monitors.  The game has to be programmed to enable monitor mapping; this is not easy to accomplish, rarely do people want this functionality, so subsequently no one ever programs for it.

Problem #2:  Windows only allows for one active Session at a time to interact with the graphics subsystem.  The &quot;Run As&quot; feature runs a program for you using another user&#039;s permissions, but still in your active Session.  If you would try to do a &quot;Switch User&quot;, that program would not be active in their Session, only yours.  So you cannot load the Flight Sim with your account and then do a Run As command to load Madden as a workaround.  Since it is a process active in your Session, and it still has to obey problem #1.

Problem #3:  One input device focus point.  Since Windows only allows one active Session (think one user), there is no reason to have multiple cursors on the screen.  Think of a laptop.  You can have a touchpad, a nub mouse, a bunch of USB mice, and a few Bluetooth mice all connected, but you will only have one cursor/arrow.  What about gamepads you say?  Yes there are multiple input paths, but they always interact with one process at a time.  If the Windows input handler doesn&#039;t notice any reserved keystroke like &quot;CTRL-ALT-DEL&quot; or a globally registered hotkey, it passes the input to the window that has focus.  So there is no way to interact with both games at the same time.

Solution:  You need to have an operating system that will concurrently allow multiple input devices mapped to multiple Sessions, that are mapped to different Monitors, and have those different Sessions interact with your multiple game instances.  This isn&#039;t Windows.

Cheviot.  I know about Remote Desktop Connection and Terminal Services and how it allows multiple users to have multiple Sessions on one Windows computer, but this is not what the question deals with.  RDC and TS allow multiple computers or thin clients to run and view a session remotely, but the current user on the server machine still cannot view all of those sessions individually on that machine, only their active one.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The simple answer for Windows gaming is No.  The reason is slightly complex, and a possible solution is even more-so complex.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m guessing you are referring to full screen games, not windowed games like solitaire.  Unfortunately this is basically impossible to do with Windows.</p>
<p>Here is a little more detailed explanation.</p>
<p>Technical Background: Windows handles multi-monitors like so.  In WindowsXP there is a Primary monitor, and additional monitors may be enabled by extending the desktop to include these additional monitors.  With a proprietary video card control panel and driver, these additional monitors can also be &#8220;clones&#8221; of the primary monitor, but there is still only one Primary monitor.</p>
<p>Problem #1:  Games are generally programmed to run only on the Primary monitor.  If the game does support multi-monitor (think flight sims), it usually spans across all the monitors.  Say you have a Flight Sim running and subsequently load Madden.  Madden will minimize the Flight Sim, and only run itself on the Primary monitor, blanking out the other monitors.  The game has to be programmed to enable monitor mapping; this is not easy to accomplish, rarely do people want this functionality, so subsequently no one ever programs for it.</p>
<p>Problem #2:  Windows only allows for one active Session at a time to interact with the graphics subsystem.  The &#8220;Run As&#8221; feature runs a program for you using another user&#8217;s permissions, but still in your active Session.  If you would try to do a &#8220;Switch User&#8221;, that program would not be active in their Session, only yours.  So you cannot load the Flight Sim with your account and then do a Run As command to load Madden as a workaround.  Since it is a process active in your Session, and it still has to obey problem #1.</p>
<p>Problem #3:  One input device focus point.  Since Windows only allows one active Session (think one user), there is no reason to have multiple cursors on the screen.  Think of a laptop.  You can have a touchpad, a nub mouse, a bunch of USB mice, and a few Bluetooth mice all connected, but you will only have one cursor/arrow.  What about gamepads you say?  Yes there are multiple input paths, but they always interact with one process at a time.  If the Windows input handler doesn&#8217;t notice any reserved keystroke like &#8220;CTRL-ALT-DEL&#8221; or a globally registered hotkey, it passes the input to the window that has focus.  So there is no way to interact with both games at the same time.</p>
<p>Solution:  You need to have an operating system that will concurrently allow multiple input devices mapped to multiple Sessions, that are mapped to different Monitors, and have those different Sessions interact with your multiple game instances.  This isn&#8217;t Windows.</p>
<p>Cheviot.  I know about Remote Desktop Connection and Terminal Services and how it allows multiple users to have multiple Sessions on one Windows computer, but this is not what the question deals with.  RDC and TS allow multiple computers or thin clients to run and view a session remotely, but the current user on the server machine still cannot view all of those sessions individually on that machine, only their active one.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark O'Neill</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark O'Neill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You don&#039;t have to &quot;propagate&quot; them first - I have four extra accounts and I have never had to log into them first.

Without seeing your computer, I couldn&#039;t begin to suggest what the problem might be.   One possible problem though - maybe the program you are trying to launch doesn&#039;t allow more than one instance at a time to be run?   Maybe there is something in the code that prevents this hack from being carried out?   Just a thought.   If you have Skype, try that and see if it works.

Also you could check the accounts one more time to make sure that administrator rights really have been granted.

I have XP service pack 2 also and it works fine for me.    But from a distance, I can&#039;t begin to properly analyse your problem.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You don&#8217;t have to &#8220;propagate&#8221; them first &#8211; I have four extra accounts and I have never had to log into them first.</p>
<p>Without seeing your computer, I couldn&#8217;t begin to suggest what the problem might be.   One possible problem though &#8211; maybe the program you are trying to launch doesn&#8217;t allow more than one instance at a time to be run?   Maybe there is something in the code that prevents this hack from being carried out?   Just a thought.   If you have Skype, try that and see if it works.</p>
<p>Also you could check the accounts one more time to make sure that administrator rights really have been granted.</p>
<p>I have XP service pack 2 also and it works fine for me.    But from a distance, I can&#8217;t begin to properly analyse your problem.</p>
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		<title>By: BroqueW</title>
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		<dc:creator>BroqueW</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hum, this tip doesn&#039;t work for me (XPSP2), even with logging into the newly created accounts to &quot;propagate&quot; them as said in another post.
Both accounts have administrator rights and I can&#039;t get any of my VoIP clients to run more than once (SJPhone, X-Lite, 3CX Phone). Even if I begin with the &quot;Run as...&quot; and then try to launch the program normally.
Any idea?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hum, this tip doesn&#8217;t work for me (XPSP2), even with logging into the newly created accounts to &#8220;propagate&#8221; them as said in another post.<br />
Both accounts have administrator rights and I can&#8217;t get any of my VoIP clients to run more than once (SJPhone, X-Lite, 3CX Phone). Even if I begin with the &#8220;Run as&#8230;&#8221; and then try to launch the program normally.<br />
Any idea?</p>
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		<title>By: How to open up multiple instances of Google Talk</title>
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		<dc:creator>How to open up multiple instances of Google Talk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] are two options. One is the option I advocated on MakeUseOf back in September which is to make use of the &#8220;run as&#8221; command in the right-click menu. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] are two options. One is the option I advocated on MakeUseOf back in September which is to make use of the &#8220;run as&#8221; command in the right-click menu. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Mark O'Neill</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark O'Neill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m not a games expert so someone else will have to answer this.    But a basic question would have to be how can you run two simultaneous games on the computer at the same time?   Split monitor?  Two monitors?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not a games expert so someone else will have to answer this.    But a basic question would have to be how can you run two simultaneous games on the computer at the same time?   Split monitor?  Two monitors?</p>
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		<title>By: ravo</title>
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		<dc:creator>ravo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>im tryin to run a game on my machine twice... silkroadonline to p lvl my own chars... do you know if this method will work for that, if not do you know a way to get it to work</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>im tryin to run a game on my machine twice&#8230; silkroadonline to p lvl my own chars&#8230; do you know if this method will work for that, if not do you know a way to get it to work</p>
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