How to Run More Than One Skype Account on a Windows?
You may have multiple Skype accounts to work with for office and personal use. It looks very irritating to logout of one account and sign in to another one. You might wish to know if you can run multiple Skype accounts on a single Windows computer.
Of course, you must know that Skype is a part of Microsoft. But do you know that you can access two (2) different Skype accounts on a single computer?
If you want to be signed in to both accounts at the same time on a Windows PC. This article will help you to run multiple Skype accounts on your computer at the same time.
Skype is an online communication application that allows users to do video or audio calls between certain devices (Desktop, Laptop, Tablets & Smartphones, etc.) Aside from that, there’s a text message option as well. It required internet access in order to use this application software.
How to Run Multiple Skype Accounts?
Important Notice: if you have multiple instances of Skype running then first, you may need to use the Task Manager to close Skype.
Follow the steps given below for multiple sign in Skype accounts:
The following steps will work with Windows 7 and later Windows until Windows 11.
Step 1. First, open the Run dialog box. Press Win + R keys on your keyboard at the same time to open the Run dialog box.
Step 2. In the Run window, type or copy paste the following command and click OK:
%programfiles(x86)%/skype/phone/
In case, if you get an error, try again, but this time type in a bit different command following %programfiles%/skype/phone/ in the Run window and hit the OK button to open.
Step 3. Once you are done with Step 2, Skype application folder will open on your screen. Look for Skype.exe and right-click on it and send to -> Desktop (create shortcut).
Step 4. Find the shortcut you just created on your desktop, then right-click it and select Properties.
Step 5. Go to Shortcut Tab, in the Target field add /secondary to the end of the path.
The Target field should now “C:\Program Files\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe” /secondary or “C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe” /secondary
Step 6. You are now ready to access two different Skype accounts at the same time on one Windows PC.