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.
Cool gadget i loved this one on the Vista
thanks!
No setup execution only xml!
Thanks They should add this to a note in the download or show on the Web Page
By aDmntk, echoing…..
w0000000000000000000t!!!!
works perfictly!!
for those who can't install it because of the file type (.zip)
* Go to Computer
* Press Alt on the left side of the keyboard
* A hidden menu bar will appear
* Choose “Tools” -> Folder Options
* A window will appear
* Choose “View”
* Uncheck “Hide extensions for known file types”
* Go to the downloaded file and change “.zip” to “.gadget”
* Double click on the file, click install
* Start installing
and it'll work perfictly!!! =D
THANKYOU!
I couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong!
thx! I need it!
I Can’t install this gadget in windows seven, why?
if I’m following all of that says ‘me’
here’s the windows site where u can download it also:
http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=bf7c005f-3cea-45cc-a83e-89517af13ef6&bt=1
I use windows 7 32-bit and had problems during installation, but i figured how to solve them:
1. Click to download the file.
2. Select SAVE
3. Change the name from ‘Notes’ to ‘Notes.Gadget’ and also change the type of the file, from ‘ZIP file’ to ‘all the files’
4. Download it!
After downloading the file, it should open automatically in your desktop!
I hope I can help you guys!
Thank u !!!!!
thanks >>>>>>>>>> i want it
Great, Thanks !!!!!
Thank you… i really need it…
thanks a lot. i was looking for it, and thanks for the installation description ;)
it says this is not a valid gadget package. :(
same here. I can’t install it as well. I installed this before in my old 64-bit windows 7 ultimate, and it works just fine. But now, I have a new 32-bit windows 7 home premium, and it says that “This is not a valid gadget package”
I guess it doesn’t work anymore. :(
The file a downloaded is notes.gadget and I clicked it, then clicked install.. Too bad for me… :(
Same thing happened with me. Any idea how wee can get around this problem?
so far, so good! just what i’ve been looking for!
thanks :)
thanks a lot.. I find this ‘old’ type of sticky notes waaay better than the new one!
This is a blessing as the Sticky Notes gadget is not shipped with Windows 7 Home Basic edition.
Thank you!
Thank you so much! This version is so much better than the new sticky notes!
thanx a lot i was searching everywhere and i finally found it thanx a very very very lot