Tips to use, format, backup, restore Sticky Notes in Windows 7

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If you are a regular Windows 7 sticky notes user, you might find these tips & tricks to use, format, backup and restore handy. It also tells you how to turn the Sticky Note delete confirmation box, back on, in case you have turned it off earlier.

stickynotes Tips to use, format, backup, restore Sticky Notes in Windows 7

  • To open a new Sticky Note, type sticky in start search and hit Enter.
  • To change its size, drag it from its bottom right corner.
  • To change its color, right click the note and then click the color you want.
  • To create a new sticky note, click on the ‘+‘ sign in its top left corner.
  • To close a sticky note, right click on its taskbar icon and select ‘Close window’.
  • To delete a sticky note click on the ‘x‘ mark in its top right corner.

Once its running and you start making notes, you can use the following keyboard shortcut keys to format its text:

Select the text where required, and then press the desired keys:

1. Bold: Ctrl+B
2. Italics: Ctrl+I
3. Underline: Ctrl+U
4. Strikethrough: Ctrl+T
5. Bullet list: Ctrl+Shift+L
6. Increase size of text: Ctrl+Shift+>
7. Decrease size of text: Ctrl+Shift+<
8. See the options when you press Ctrl+Shift+L each time (1 to 5 times).eg. To get Roman numerals: Press 5 times, Ctrl+Shift+L.
9. Capitalize (or otherwise) highlighted letters: Ctrl+Shift+A
10. Right Align : Ctrl+R
11. Center align: Ctrl+E
12. Left Align: Ctrl+L
13. Single line space: Ctrl+1
14. Double line space: Ctrl+2
15. 1.5 line space: Ctrl+5

Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, etc of course work as usual. Know any more? Do share below in the comments!

Backup and Restore Sticky Notes.

You can backup the Windows 7 Sticky Notes by backing up this file to another location : C:\Users\ACK\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes\StickyNotes.snt . You may have to show hidden/system files via the Folder Options. To restore it, delete the sticky notes from your desktop and copy paste the backed up one into the C:\Users\ACK\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes folder

How To Retrieve Back The Lost Notes, After Closing Windows Vista’s Sidebar Notes Gadget may interest some Vista users.

How to turn the Sticky Note delete warning back on.

If you have at any point, on selecting delete,  opted to NOT have the confirmation box show up again, by selecting Don’t Display this message again, and would now like to get this delete confirmation box, here is the way to do it. This tip comes to you courtesy my colleague Ramesh Kumar.

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Open Registry Editor and navigate to the following key :

stickyreg Tips to use, format, backup, restore Sticky Notes in Windows 7

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\StickyNotes

Now delete the value called PROMPT_ON_DELETE or set its value to 1.

How to minimize Windows Sticky Notes to your notification area and Sticky Notes alternatives may also interest you.

If you have any questions, please address them to TWC Forum thread on Sticky Notes.

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About AnandK@TWC

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  • http://user.alexanderklimov.ru tehnolog

    Insdead of sticky type stikynot in start search

  • http://www.thewindowsclub.com/ Windows Club

    Thanks for bringing this up.

    StikyNot is the name of the .exe file which is situated in the C:\Windows\system32 folder.

  • David

    Where are the options in stickynote? I switched off the warning before deleting and can’t find how to put it back on again.

    Thanks.

  • Relo@d

    I also need to learn how to turn the sticky note delete warning back on plz!

  • http://www.thewindowsclub.com/ Windows Club

    Relo@d : Post has updated to answer your question :)

  • Chris

    What is the point of having sticky notes be backed up in the .snt file if you can’t read it? When I open it in Notepad, I see gibberish, with my notes in there somewhere. When I open it with Sticky Notes itself, I just get a new Sticky Note window on my desktop. Do I need proprietary software to view it in a meaningful way? Or am I expected to just be okay with dozens of notes popping up whenever I open Sticky Note, in order to review what I once documented? Seems silly and unwieldy.

  • Carver

    I was wondering if there was any way to hide the sticky notes application from the taskbar. Such as in the system tray. Because I would like to have sticky notes open all the time, but I dont want it taking up space on my taskbar.

  • Ed

    After running sticky notes for the first time every time I start up again an empty sticky note appears on the desktop. Is there a way to disable sticky notes from start up? I have tried disabling it with CCCleaner but get access denied.

  • Bob

    I had to reboot before the registry change took effect (for restoring the delete warning).

  • Allan

    Hi guys.. it’s not the perfect solution, but searching on the net, I found a software (Sticky Notes Taskbar Hider) that does exactly what the name says! It lets you send sticky notes to the system tray.
    http://drakenscripts.co.cc/index.php?p=sticky-notes-taskbar-hider
    I just tried it and it worked for me..

    But I agree, shouldn’t have to add an other software to hide a simple task bar item!
    Cheers

  • http://bloggermind.net Jadah

    Thanks for the Info, you had this posted just in time of need. Sticky Notes are very useful, but was giving up on them because of my Laptop and Desktop Use. used to send them by email…
    Thanks!!

  • http://technochase.com/ Bogcess

    Great post! That was definitely helpful. However I re-entered my data manually because the codes are different to read. I hope microsoft makes it easier to restore deleted notes in the future. Thanks!

  • britton fletchall

    i have never used sticky notes, but i tried to open it and an error prompt comes up stating it failed to quit or initialize what can i do. it won’t open or close

  • hendra

    Hi Everyone…
    could anyone please help me, i’d like the sticky notes process to be running every time i start up, since i am using error repair professional, and deleted the process, now i can’t even restore it. is there anyone know how to start up the sticky notes process? please email me..
    profesor_shadow at yahoo dot co dot id
    any answer would be thankful…
    regards..

  • random-user

    so i had a little trouble with my laptop today, so i resored it. unfortunately the sticky notes don’t work anymore…
    when i click on the sticky note icon it opens a little windows with this:
    not able to launch sticky notes. issue with accessing the file.
    WHAT CAN I DO???? PLEASE HELP!! I really want them back!
    Thanks in advance :)

  • gongoscho

    Hello,
    where i can found the postions of the notes? Or better, is it possible to save the postions?

    I work with 2 Displays, and the problem is when i change to 1 display from 2 display work the positions are bad!

    grEEtZ,
    gongoscho

  • shenry

    I typed a new sticky note and options to close, minimize or maximize it are greyed out. I have options only to delete (x)or add (+). How can I fix this so my notes are not visible to everyone who walks up to my PC?

  • Kalle

    How can I keep Sticky Notes always on top?

  • John

    When I restart my computer with a sticky note on the desktop, the font size of the note is greatly(!) increased. Is this a known bug and is there a fix.

  • Donna

    My sidebar “sticky notes” have disappeared – along with some needed info. How can I find them?

  • joon

    why doesn’t sticky notes just have an options menu instead of old commador 64 keyboard commands???? if microsoft is going to copy apple why don’t they try to improve the technology? just another reason to make the switch to something that works the first time it is released.

  • Boris

    From some time Sticky Notes stopped working, on startup it just says that the program stopped working and should i try to restart the app. Nothing helps.
    So I’ve found Stickies app as an alternative.
    How do I disable the original Sticky Notes from running on startup?
    It’s not in Sysinternals/Autoruns…

  • imy

    thanks man for the information

  • Jess

    Is there a way to change the font? I just have a weird thing about fonts that aren’t neat looking. :(

  • http://www.thewindowsclub.com/about Windows Club

    My apologies about the date Josh.
    Thanks Rahul – I trust you know for sure!

  • Mike

    Jess,
    If you paste a few characters of text using the font you desire and then put the insertion point into that text string, anything you type will be in the pasted [desired] font. You can then clean up the extraneous stuff you pasted into the note and you’re good to go. Hope this helps

  • Oliver

    I second that query about not having it start at startup…but it’s not listed in Startup Services as far as I can tell. Does anyone know how to turn this thing off?

  • Joohansson

    On scandinavian keyboard for decrease/increase text size:
    Dec: ctrl+shift+,
    Inc: ctrl+shift+.

  • Firefly

    Why does my note on my sticky note get extra letters, number or symbols added to it daily?

  • aisha

    how can i erase the writing on the stick note when i am using the digital pen plz

  • Slaaneshlord

    i keep having this come up when i log on my pc or try to open stickynotes manually.
    Not able to launch sticky notes. issue with accessing the file(quit).

    At this point i just want to know how to delete it from my computer. it wont let me uninstall or delete the file. help anyone

  • twilightamnesia75

    I have an important sticky note that was on my desktop for months, but all of a sudden it has disappeared. When I hover my mouse over the sticky note icon in my task bar, I can see it, but I cant seem to restore it. Can anyone please help?! Many thanks for any help!

  • Avner19

    How do I change the font?

  • Charles Pace

    Great resources have been discovered here, thanks!

  • Anonymous

    I love Sticky Notes but… There must be a way to reroute the .snt file to one that can be backed up on a regular basis, like say the ‘My Documents’ folder. Any ideas?

  • Addie Nonki

    does anyone knows how to start sticky notes minimized? thanks!

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