[Tutorial] How To Stop Google Talk From Saving Chat Logs [Windows]

If you care about your privacy and you use GTalk very often for our business meetings you should be considering of stopping Google Talk from saving your chat logs and in this tutorial I will show you how to do that in both version, GTalk Desktop application and your Gmail account.


To get started follow steps below

GTalk via Gmail

Step 1: In your web browser login into your Gmail account and from top right corner click on gear button

Step 2: From drop down menu choose Settings

Step 3: Now click on Chat tab

Step 4: Now next to My chat History make sure that select box next to Never save chat history is selected

Step 5: Click Save Changes button located at the bottom

GTalk via Desktop client

If you are using a desktop version of GTalk above steps won’t work on both versions so you need to make additional steps inside your GTalk client and here is what you need to do

Step 1: Open your GTalk client and click the Settings link which is located at the top of your Friends list.

Step 2: When new window opens choose Chat from the left pane

Step 3: Now select the select box next to Don’t save chat history in my Gmail account.

Step 4: Save your changes and close all windows.

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Boris Zegarac is Staff Writer at TheTechJournal. He is our Tutorial Expert. He is a web developer and web designer who is also interested in Computers and Smartphones. You can follow him at his Google + profile page

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