Mulitple Application Instances

[Mrobins]

I have a program (Ok...fine........AOL....) that only allows me to have one AOL application window open at once, and I'd really like to have two. This sounds like a job for Regedit. I've already tried simple, obvious things like renaming one executable and installing one on a zip drive. A friend suggested I use assembler code. any thoughts?

[jstolz]

I believe that you need to eliminate the app's behavior as a DDE application. You can find the pertinent DDE information under HKCR\...\shell branch for the file type in question. Try deleting the HKCR\...\shell\open\ddeexec key along with any Topic, Application, and ifexec subkeys and that should get you running multiple instances. Naturally, I'd suggest exporting that branch to a reg file before deleting...

Regards...