{"id":428,"date":"2009-01-17T15:59:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T15:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2009\/01\/17\/how-to-enable-polygamy-in-windows-live-messenger.aspx"},"modified":"2009-01-17T15:59:31","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T15:59:31","slug":"how-to-enable-polygamy-in-windows-live-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"How To Enable Polygamy In Windows Live Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you will have several WLIDs, and want to sign into Messenger with more than one of them. Until now you had to seek refuge in a patch or add-on to be able to do so. Not anymore! Microsoft\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s John Weisenfeld just shared a little trick with me to enable this, which I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to share with you. <\/p>\n<p>The trick involves registry editing, so please follow these steps very carefully:<\/p>\n<p>1. Start regedit (admin)    <br \/>2. Navigate to <strong>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows Live<\/strong>    <br \/>3. Right click <strong>Messenger<\/strong> and create a new <strong>DWORD<\/strong> called <strong>MultipleInstances<\/strong> And set it to<strong> 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/liveside.net\/main\/archive\/2008\/12\/17\/how-to-enable-polygamy-in-windows-live-messenger.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/liveside.net\/main\/archive\/2008\/12\/17\/how-to-enable-polygamy-in-windows-live-messenger.aspx\">http:\/\/liveside.net\/main\/archive\/2008\/12\/17\/how-to-enable-polygamy-in-windows-live-messenger.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you will have several WLIDs, and want to sign into Messenger with more than one of them. Until now you had to seek refuge in a patch or add-on to be able to do so. Not anymore! Microsoft\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s John Weisenfeld just shared a little trick with me to enable this, which I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}