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.
Hope I'm not too late to thank you for posting one of the most useful gadget by Ms..
I don't get why they removed so many useful stuff in 7 .___. Thanks >O</
Exacty what I needed, thanks!
Exacty what I needed, thanks!
it doesn't work for, it is just a .zip file, so I just can extarct it, I can't install it, please how do I do it??
change the .zip to .gadget
(eg: Notes.zip to Notes.gadget)
it doesnt work for me, i have windows 7 ultimate 64 bits, i double clic in the gadget and install it, but i dont see the notes gadgets in the gadgets window
thanks
When you click the link choose save and under save as type choose all files. Also add .gadget to the end of the file name. Than the file will install like a gadget. This worked for me.
installed and works great (i have windows 7 ultimate 64bit) this was my favorite gadget in vista
what's your Windows Language?
yaar please tel me that can we download this gadget on Windows XP also and if Yes, then HOW??
This isn't for XP.
thanks man!!! gj.
thanks so much :) it's very nice
i just rename en-US folder as it-IT and run
greetings from ITALY
hi all
You're welcome, and thanks for the tip :)
thanks so much :) it's very nice
i just rename en-US folder as it-IT and run
greetings from ITALY
hi all
You're welcome, and thanks for the tip :)
great app man, but is there anyway that the notes can be saved when you close them? i know yahoo widgets notes saves the information after it is closed.
great app man, but is there any the notes can be saved when you close the gadget? whenever the gadget is closed i lose the information i wrote on it
great app man, but is there anyway that the notes can be saved when you close them? i know yahoo widgets notes saves the information after it is closed.
Thanks a ton! I’ve been looking everywhere for this. The sticky notes gadget of Win7 is useful in its own way (no need to put a physical sticky note on the monitor anymore), but the Vista version is handy because it stores multiple notes in a less unobtrusive way. If we are lucky, maybe M$ will provide the functionality of both versions in the next version via configuration options. That would be sweet.
hey men this zip file not working
It works fine. Change the extension to .gadget. It’s not a zip file.