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.
thanks man, really great thing you did.
Works great! A lot better than the Win7 Sticky Notes application…I wonder if this will be the only thing we remember and carry forward from the SS Vista?
thanks, help me a lot if my englisk is sorry ai’m brazilian
this is not working AT ALL.
Very big TNX!! Work great with Win7 Ultimate ITA (Renamed “en-EN” in “it-IT”)
took like 10 seconds to install, works great, thanks
many thanks! this made my day!
oh wow.. i tot this is impossible in windows 7. :D This was the only thing that keeps me not to update vista to win7. haha :D
For German Users:
download the file, rename the file in notes.zip, open with Winzip or WinRar, change die Directory “en-EN” in “de-DE”, save the file, rename it to notes.gadget and install! Have Fun :)
thanks a lot buddy.. i was disappointed whn i did nt find it on window 7.. gr8 to get da vista gadget back on my win 7.. thanks
this is awesome. it works just fine. thanks so much.
Thanks! This works great… Windows 7 sticky notes suck.
I disagree, I had been dual-booting Vista & Windows 7 RC, now back using Vista only. I have no issues with Vista, other than I miss Sticky Notes from Win7.
Thanks a million! :) Now my groceries and project assignments are on my desktop again! Cheers!
Thanks you very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very ….. much
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?