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 with 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 Windows 7.
You can download it below. Just run it and install. It’ll pop up in your desktop gadgets in Windows 7.
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thank you for your fast answer, but the problem ist still there. i click install and windows is asking me if i want to install or not. when i now confirm nothing happen. i have no idea what i´m doing wrong.
Can you zip up the Windows 7 sticky note program and post it? I want multiple notes!
you’re a god, thanks
If you want multiple notes, you can either click on the + sign after you've opened up an instance of the Notes Gadget, or you can open up multiple instances of it by dragging and dropping it again and again from the Desktop Gadgets Gallery.
Awesome, thanks!
Thanx you very much, dude!!!!!! :) I have been looking for Notes for 7 for ages, because sticky notes in 7 are completely useless for me :)) Thank you very, very, very much!!!!!!
I too couldn’t get the gadget to install – it instead opened the temporary internet folder the files were downloaded to. What I did was move the “Notes[1]” zipped folder to the desktop and changed the file extention from .zip to .gadget. Then it allowed me to double-click on it and install.
Hopefully this helps anyone else that runs across this.
Thank you! For the users that does not work is because they need a localized version of the gadget to have to open it with WinRAR and rename the folder en-US for their region (for example, for Spain would be es-ES )
Greetings
sucks, has a virus
It doesn't have a virus. Please don't spread misconceptions.
Just rename the file as notes.gadget and install it!! Works fine with Windows 7
cheers :D if you can't install it, right click save target as, rename before you download to Notes.gadget, and then change the file type from .zip to All files, it's the drop down menu under the name bar :)
Thank you SO MUCH. Not only does it not take up taskbar space, but the lack of font options was beginning to really bother me.
Appreciate this. I like this version more than the Windows 7 version.
Thanks! I hated that the new Sticky Notes made my taskbar ugly.
Great! The new sticky notes fails when mimizing to desktop, or using the Aero Peek feature caus the notes will hide then… This gadget is just perfect!
Like Xuletas just said, if it doesn't install when doble click (assuming you changed from .zip to .gadget) you must open the file with WinZip, WinRar or any other and check your country Region. Inside the file there is a “en-EN” folder because this is english version, you must change that folder name to “es-ES” (in my case, for Spanish language) or your contry region and save the file again with .gadget extension.