Google Talk - Tricks and Shortcuts

GTalk Trick and Shortcuts

 Days of Yahoo Messenger are over. Everyone now a days use Gtalk!!

 Am I Right!!! I guess so :)

And if you dont have Google talk . Download it here

So here I am with few Gtalk Chat Shortcuts or you can say tricks

GTalk Shortcuts

Tab  -->  Switch through the currently open chat windows

Esc --> Close current chat window

Alt + Esc  -->  Close all chat windows
F9  -->  Open Gmail
F11  -->  Call
F12  -->  End current Call

Text Formatting

Italic Text -->  type  text between two underscores. eg. _ITALIC_ = ITALIC

Bold Text -->  type the text between two asterisks. eg. *BOLD!* = BOLD

Below ones are new to me as well :)

GTalk Startup Parameters

To add some extra features to GTALK, you can add some parameters when GTALK is launched.

To use the parameters, just edit the Google Talk shortcut on your desktop, and add any of the following parameters after a slash(/) 

Go through the following screenshot for "how to do"

Right Click on Google Talk Shortcut on Desktop

Click Properties

Edit the " startmenu" in the Target Field with any of the following parameters

checkupdate --> Check for updates to the current version

diag --> Run GTalk in Diagnostic Mode

nomutex --> Open more than one instance of GTalk at a time
factoryreset --> Load default settings
mailto user@gmail.com --> Send an email using GMail

Thats it for now!!! Enjoy Chatting :)