Thursday, August 25, 2011

How to make a conference call in GTalk?


Conference talk is one of most often used feature in internet. Users wish to have conference talk with their friends and family online. Now a days most of us are using GTalk. One of the limitations in GTalk is, we can’t do conference talk in GTalk. This always force the users to use Yahoo. I still wonder why don’t Gtalk support conference talk?
How to make a conference call in GTalk?
How to make a conference call in GTalk?
There is a way to do a conference in GTalk. This can be achieved by launching multiple instances of GTalk. GTalk allows us to launch multiple GTalk instances (this is not being supported by yahoo). Do the following to get multiple instances.

Way 1: To edit existing Google Talk shortcut
  1. Right click on the Google Talk shortcut.
  2. On the contextual menu, click on Properties.
  3. Go to Shortcut tab on Properties window.
  4. On the Target textbox, add in the /nomutex to the end of the line so that it looks like the following. “c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex or you can simply copy and paste the above syntax and replace the original.
  5. Click on OK.
  6. Way 2: To create a new shortcut for Google Talk