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With Google Talk being all the craze right now, some people hating it, and others loving
it, I figured that I would post a list of tips and tricks for those curious about the extra
"features" Google implemented and has not said much about.
Registry Tweaks
You can edit most settings by opening regedit (start -> regedit),
and navigating to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk.
The "Google/Google Talk" key has several sub-keys that hold different option values:
Accounts: This one has subkeys for each different account that has logged in on the
client. These keys have different values that store the username, password and connection
options.
Autoupdate: Stores the current version information. When the client checks for updates
it compares Google's response with these values. If an update is needed, it will download
and update the new version.
Options: This is the most interesting part, where most of the current hacks should be
used (keep reading).
Process: Stores the process ID. Probably used by Google Talk to detect if it's already
running or not.
2.)HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google
Talk\Options\view_show_taskbutton
If 0, hides the taskbar button, and leaves the tray icon only, when the window is shown
3.)HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\away_inactive
4.)HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\away_screensaver
5.)HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\inactive_minutes
Number of inactive minutes to become away if auto-away is on.
How To
Conference Calls :
What you need to do to have conference calls: Open up a copy of Google Talk on all
computers with which you wish to conference. After one copy is opened make a new
shortcut for Google Talk but at the end of it add /nomutex. If you installed it to the default
folder then your shortcut should read "C:\Program Files\Google\Google
Talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex. Open 2nd instances of the software on every user's
computer. After this start a chain: User 1 should connect on one instance to user 2. User 2
will connect on his second instance to user 3. User 3 will connect using his second
instance back to user 1. With this chain everyone is connected to everyone.
You can't change your nickname in a way that other people will see it change. Every
nickname in the Google Talk contactlist is the part that is before @gmail.com (only the
alphabetical characters are used) or the name you chosen for your GMail account. To
change the nickname need to go to your Gmail account and change the name there.
Choose Settings, Accounts, and then Edit info. Click on the second radio button, and
enter your custom name. As a result all of your emails will have that nick as well, there is
no way to seperate the two. You can add a website in your custom message, it will be
clickable when someone opens a conversation window with you.
Contacts :
You don't need to say Yes or No when someone wants to add you as a friend; you can
simply ignore it, the request will go away. (On the other hand, someone with whom you
chat often will automatically turn to be your friend, unless you disable this).
The Gmail account 'user@gmail.com' can't be invited as your friend.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Want to run Google Talk with multiple Gmail identities? If you have several Google
Gmail accounts you also may want to run multiple instances of Google Talk This is
especially important for families that share a single PC. Nothing worse than a family
member signing you out so they can sign in under their own account!
Basically, to have "Google Polygamy" you need to run Google Talk with the following
switch: /nomutex
Step 5: Click Next and choose a shortcut name such as Google Talk1, Google Talk2, or
something related to your Gmail account for easy remembering which account is which.
Step 6: Click OK a few times.
http://www.webjabber.net:8080/jim/
Step 2: Follow the instructions of the Page.
There are a few secret parameters you can add to Google Talk and make it function
differently.
The most important, I think, is /nomutex, which allows you to run more than one
instance of GT. Here are the others:
/nomutex: allows you to open more than one instance of Google Talk
/autostart: when Google Talk is run with this parameter, it will check the registry
settings to see if it needs to be started or not. If the "Start automatically with Windows"
option is unchecked, it won't start.
/forcestart: same as /autostart, but forces it to start no matter what option was set.
/S upgrade: Used when upgrading Google Talk
/register: registers Google Talk in the registry, includig the GMail Compose method.
/checkupdate: check for newer versions
/plaintextauth: uses plain authentication mechanism instead then Google's GAIA
mechanism. Used for testing the plain method on Google's servers.
/nogaiaauth: disables GAIA authentication method. The same as above.
/factoryreset: set settings back to default.
/gaiaserver servername.com: uses a different GAIA server to connect to Google Talk.
Used for debug purposes only, there are no other known GAIA servers.
/mailto email@host.com: send an email with Gmail
/diag: start Google Talk in diagnostic mode
/log: probably has something to do with the diagnostic logging
/unregister: ?
/embedding: ?
To add these, open up your GT shortcut, and where it says "Target:" add one or more of
these inside the quotations, but after the .exe part.
Emotions :
All these emotions appears in color in a conversation : (but having them in an image
would be better, like iChat or MSN)
:-|
:-O
:-x
:-P
:-D
;-)
:-(
:-)
B-)
:'(
:|
:O
:x
:P
:D
:)
:(
:)
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