I recently started a new job and I was given a “company Skype account”. Whilst this was useful, I didn’t want to lose my own Skype account and I thought that it would be useful to keep them both. Then I started to wonder if it’s possible to be logged into both accounts at the same time. I had read about doing this by forwarding calls from one account to the other, but I wanted to try and use both at once.
I followed a few sets of instructions that I found on the Internet, but none seemed to work well, so after a little trial and error, I came up with this solution.
(Tested on two separate Windows 7, 64-bit PCs).
- Find your Skype executable and copy the path to the .exe file.
In my case this was “C:Program Files (x86)SkypePhoneSkype.exe” - Create a new shortcut on your desktop by right-clicking the desktop and choosing New -> Shortcut.
Paste in the path to your Skype executable.
- After clicking “Next” you’re prompted to give your shortcut a sensible name.
I chose Skype (1) - Repeat the above process but instead of using the path…
“C:Program Files (x86)SkypePhoneSkype.exe”Use…
“C:Program Files (x86)SkypePhoneSkype.exe” /secondary - Give this second shortcut an appropriate name and you’re done.
I chose Skype (2) - Both executables then work independently of one another, the only thing that you need to do when opening Skype using the second shortcut is choose the account that you want to login with from the dropdown.
I hope that you find this tip useful.
