Get the Vista Notes Sidebar Gadget for Windows 7
If you all can take out the issues you had with Windows Vista out of your mind for a minute and think hard, you’ll remember it had a very useful sidebar gadget called Notes. It let you quickly scribble down ideas, phone numbers and all sorts of texts and looked just like real sticky notes. It also had a few options for different fonts, font sizes and stick note color.
Windows 7 comes a new sticky notes application to replace the notes gadget but it sits in your taskbar when running hence taking up valuable space. For multiple notes it starts new instances of sticky notes unlike the gadget which gave previous and next options for multiple notes.
Windows 7 Sticky Notes
Windows Vista Notes Gadget
I really liked the Notes gadget in Vista, so I extracted the folder and repacked it as a .gadget file so that it can be installed in Windows 7. I find it better to use than the Sticky Notes app in 7.
You can download it below. Just run it and install. It’ll pop up in your desktop gadgets in Windows 7.
Download Notes Gadget for Windows 7
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Thanks a million!
Now my groceries and project assignments are on my desktop again! Cheers!
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I may be a n00b here but how do you change the name of the .zip files to .gadget?
I simply can’t edit the name of the folder or the files inside of it and if I unzip it it makes no sense changing the names of the files since it wont change the file type. Any suggestions? Thanks
Works on mine! Thanks!
ONE GREAT APPLICATION!
Thanks a lot!
Here’s the deal to all of you who got confused…
Download and Save, don’t open!
Save on your desktop as ‘Notes.Gadget’, pick file typs ‘all files’.
Then double click on the desktop icon to Install.
I have a problem that it’s getting active all the time, i mean the little blinkie line when you type keeps appearing in the gadget. It’s not the end of the world but it is anoying. Do more people have this problem? Has anyone solved this?
thank you very much dude, very handy
Thank buddy!
I TRY TO REACTIVATE MY PRECEDENT VERSION OF DESKTOP FROM VISTA TO WINDOWS 7 BUT AFTER DOWNLOAD I CLICK ON INSTALL BUT SURPRISE NO REACTION NO INSTALLATION NO NOTE ON SIDEBAR ( BY THE WAY MY WINDOWS IS FRENCH ????
WHERE IS THE PROBLEM ?