Forgot to mention he is on 4D v18.

> On Apr 17, 2020, at 11:36 AM, JOHN BAUGHMAN <john...@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> I don’t think you have to create duplicate copies of 4D. I an not on Windows 
> but have a client who is on Windows 10 and he is able to have multiple 
> instances of the same 4D client running at the same time on the same machine, 
> each connected to different 4D servers.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
>> On Apr 2, 2020, at 1:57 PM, Kevin Abraham via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Don’t tell me Windows 10 for 4Dv16.2 has broken this but it is incredibly 
>> easy and we have been doing this with up to 4 Servers since v6 all the way 
>> to v13, so I would be very surprised if this ability was changed by Window 
>> or 4D.
>> 
>> Simply go find your 4D Installation, in my case 4D v13.3 in Program Files 
>> (x86). Then make as many copies of that 4D folder as you need, in your case 
>> 1 and in my case 4. They will be named 4D v13.3 - Copy, Copy(2), etc. by 
>> windows when you create them in Program Files. Then simply create a shortcut 
>> to each 4D.exe and put them on the desktop. If you have 4 installed copies 
>> of 4D you will have 4 Shorcuts to 4 different 4D.exe files and can connect 
>> to up to 4 different Servers at the same time.
>> 
>> Now what you can’t do, is connect any more than one of them to a single 
>> Server at the same time, i.e. you can not have 2 Clients connected to the 
>> same server at the same time (at least not the way I described above, maybe 
>> someone knows how, but not me).
>> 
>> Good Luck,
>> Kevin Abraham
>> Digital Retirement Solutions
>> kabra...@drs401k.com
>> 
>>> On Apr 2, 2020, at 1:13 PM, Ken Geiger Gmail via 4D_Tech 
>>> <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Dumb question. I have a customer with two 4D C/S databases that are running 
>>> simultaneously on two instances of 4D Server. He would like to launch two 
>>> instances of 4D Client on his workstation so he dies not have to keep 
>>> quitting and launching the Client to access either of his apps. Windows 10, 
>>> 4D 16.2. 
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Ken Geiger
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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