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Re: Google Talk: Create Desktop Shortcuts for Contacting Each of Your Friends

Daniel Tolentino — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:42:28 -0000

thank you for that info, it was really helpful actually the only thing that I want- is to have a shortcut icon of the main googletalk on my desktop, however that steps works too :)

Re: Google Talk: Create Desktop Shortcuts for Contacting Each of Your Friends

luckyone — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:22:02 -0000

good afternoon

Re: Google Talk: Create Desktop Shortcuts for Contacting Each of Your Friends

Milhouse — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:27:07 -0000

I tried the recipe in Vista, didn't worked. But i got it to work like this:

- Instead of inserting "gtalk:chat?jid=<username>@gmail.com" in step 3, i did put this:

"C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /gtalk:chat?jid=<username>@gmail.com

Observe that i used the same idea, but now my shortcut contains the path to googletalk.exe.
Note that the path is between quote marks. And <user> is your Windows username.
Note that there is a space between the path and /gtalk:chat?jid=<username>@gmail.com
Note that there are three notes, and you are reading the third now.

- Other way
Since we are using a parameter, copy and paste the Gtalk shortcut. Then right click the new shortcut, click 'Properties', then in the field "Target" use the parameter after the path (use space after the path, use space between parameters).

- Worked in Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit.

Milhouse

Re: Google Talk: Create Desktop Shortcuts for Contacting Each of Your Friends

Shankar Ganesh — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:46:39 -0000

This trick only worked in my XP machine and not in Vista.

Re: Google Talk: Create Desktop Shortcuts for Contacting Each of Your Friends

mahesh — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:02:44 -0000

to create google talk atdesktop shot cut

Re: Google Talk: Create Desktop Shortcuts for Contacting Each of Your Friends

Rob Rogers — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:42:57 -0000

Hmmmm. It works perfectly on my machine. I'm running Vista with SP1 installed, are you?

Re: Google Talk: Create Desktop Shortcuts for Contacting Each of Your Friends

Michael_in_NC — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:19:56 -0000

It doesn't want to work on my Vista machine. It says it cannot find file. Near as I can tell, I've followed the instructions to the letter. What am I doing wrong?