title: Running multiple instances of Netbeans under the same user
body: <p>If a user logs into two different computers on a (Windows) network and launches netbeans on both of them, the error below pops up. Is there a way to resolve this so that two different PCs on the network can both run netbeans under the same account?</p>
  
  <p>I would like three programming students to share the same working directory to make it easy for them to collaborate. An easy way to achieve this is to have the three students on a team all log into windows under the same user account. </p>
  
  <p>My school will be hosting a programming competition where students work in teams of three, so I thought this would be an easy way to minimize the number of temporary windows accounts we need to create. Is there a work-around?</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/wGE0T.png" alt="Error Msg - An instance of the program seems to be already running"></p>