A friend of mine showed me this simple little trick that allows you to login to two Ventrilo servers simultaneously. I thought this could come in handy from time to time. Here’s what to do.
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First, locate your Ventrilo short cut.
Next, right click on the shortcut and choose properties.
You will see a dialog box show up like the one below.
Add the switch -m after the last quote as shown below. Click Apply and then click OK to close the dialog box.
You can now launch multiple instances of Ventrilo by clicking on the shortcut as many times as you wish.
The last step is to make sure you bind a Hotkey (push to talk key) for each instance of Ventrilo that is open. See the two images below.
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Voila, you can now hang out on two (or more) Ventrilo servers at the same time.
You’re probably not going to want to do this a lot because it can get kind of crazy trying to keep track of who’s saying what and from where. It’s definitely a nice little addition to anyone’s bag of tricks though.
Speaking of Ventrilo, Zen Geeks just launched its very own Ventrilo server. It’s a members only server, but membership is free so it’s essentially a public server. Stop by the forums for more information.
Tags: hacks, how to, ventrilo, voip, zen geeks
