Install more than 1 IMVU client using batch scripts tutorial

by DataMine · 97 posts
11 years ago in IMVU Lounge

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Posted 11 years ago · Author

In this tutorial, I am going to show you how you can have more than one IMVU client installed on the same machine. Each client will be independent of each other however only 1 can be ran at one time. With a simple script, you can choose which one you want to use and then at any time, close it, and open another.

Benefites of this tutorial:
-The ability to test out a new version of IMVU without loosing your current version.
-The ability to have older and newer client versions installed at the same time.
-The ability to use IMVULite, T3DE and the original client without having to reinstall to switch between them.
-The ability to test things on different versions.

Notes:
-They will all share the same account info so if you save your login name, it will be the same for the other clients but you can choose to log into any account.
-Only one client can be running at the a time. There are ways to run 2 clients at once, but that is outside the scope of this tutorial.
-You can have different versions installed (i.e 484 and 482 or IMVULite and T3DE)

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Tutorial
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Alright, let us begin. To start, you're going to choose the client you want to install. This can be any client from IMVU or Something like IMVULite/T3DE.

Step 1)

Install your first client normally. The same way you would install it if you only had 1 client.

Step 2)

Navigate to this location on your computer: %appdata%. (C:\Users\{Your User Name}\AppData\Roaming\)

-You can do this by either opening up the run box and typing in "%appdata%" or opening up an explorer window and typing %appdata% into the address bar.

Step 3)

Find the IMVUClient folder where your client is installed.

Step 4)

Rename this folder to IMVUClient-"PICK A NAME". You will replace "PICK A NAME" with anything you want to name it.

-For example: IMVUClient-IMVULite

Step 5)

Open notepad and paste this code into it:

Code

@echo off
set LAUNCHER=%APPDATA%\IMVUClient-"PICK A NAME"\IMVUClient.exe
set NAME=IMVUClient-"PICK A NAME"
set APPDATA=%APPDATA%\%NAME%
%LAUNCHER%
EXIT

Step 6)

Replace "PICK A NAME" in the code above with the name you chose in step 4.

Step 7)

Save the file as

Launch IMVU-"PICK A NAME".bat

to your desktop. (Again, replace "PICK A NAME" with the name you chose in step 4)

Step 8)

Run the bat file to make sure it opens the client. If it does, then you've followed the steps correctly.

Step 9)

Repeat steps 1 through 8 for every different client you want installed.

DONE!

If you followed the tutorial correctly, you should have multiple IMVUClient folders located in %appdata% with different names and you should have a batch file for each folder.

Now, whenever you want to use a client, just run the batch file for whichever client you want to use.

Congratz, now you have multiple IMVU clients installed that you can use for whatever you want.

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Troubleshooting
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If you receive an error saying "c:\something\something is not recognized as an internal or external command", wrap the LAUNCHER line in quotes.

Example:

Code

SET LAUNCHER="%APPDATA%\%_CHOSENCLIENT%\IMVUCLient.exe"

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If you would like an all-in-one file, check out my tutorial for the multi launcher: viewtopic.php?f=134&t=10088