Netbeans a new window for each project

Question

I have 2 projects inside of netbeans. I would like to open to windows, one for each project. Is this possible within netbeans 8.1? I have googled the question and the response show no, but the answers are all older (~3 - 10 years old). Is it yet possible?

Answer 1

NetBeans uses a concept of user directory and one user directory corresponds to one IDE window. Multiple projects can be opened in one NetBeans IDE Window, but if you need multiple NetBeans IDE windows, the only way to do that is to use two different user directories.

To open a new NetBeans IDE window you can start the NetBeans application from command prompt by providing a command line parameter --userdir followed by an existing blank directory. NetBeans will use this directory as a user directory and will open another IDe window, where you can open your another project

More details can be read here.