How to Customize Sticky Notes in Windows 7
Information
This will show you how to Customize the default look of Sticky Notes in Windows 7.
Note
The text color is controled by the theme you are using default aero is black
Warning
Copy the StikyNot.exe to your desktop to edit
Default
Custom
Get a
copy of
StikyNot.exe from
C:\Windows\System32 and put it on your desktop.
Open it in Resource Hacker, on the
left side expand
UIFILE > 1001 > 1033 highlighted in yellow. On the right side under
<style resid="Yellow"> change the rgb values highlighted in yellow.
After you have changed the rgb values highlighted in yellow Click on
Compile Script button. I have changed the values shown below in the
Screenshot to show where their locations are.
If all you wanted to do was change the look of the notepad background you are done click on
File > Save. It will give you StikyNot_original.exe and StikyNot.exe
If you want to change the toolbar New Notepad
+ sign and Close
X sign and the
Grip on the lower right corner continue following this tutorial.
I will use the
Grip in the lower right corner has the example. Expand
Bitmap > 3011 > 1033.
Click on
Action >
Save[Bitmap : 3011 : 1033].
Named the file
3011 Save it to your desktop.
Edit the image to your liking with a image editor saving it back to your desktop.
Click on
Action >
Replace Bitmap.
Click on
Open file with new bitmap.
Navigate to the
3011.bmp (the one you edited) and click on
Open.
Click on
Replace.
Repeat the above steps for each image.
When done click on
File >
Save . It will give you StikyNot_original.exe and StikyNot.exe
Go to
C:\Windows\System32\StikyNot.exe and
Take Ownership of it, then give yourself
Permissions renamed to
StikyNot.bak.exe replace with StikyNot.exe the modified one on your desktop.
Below are the image numbers for the Right Click menu Icon images.
Right Click menu icon #s 3044 to 3050
Below are the Toolbar and Gripimage numbers. You will notice that there are
3 numbers for each image it depends on which
DPI setting you are using Small, Medium, Large.
Grip lower right corner #s 3011, 3012, 3013
New Note #s 3400,3401,3402
Close #s 3403,3404,3405
New Note Hot/Hover #s 3410,3411,3412
Close Hot/Hover #s 3413,3414,3415
New Note Pressed #s 3420,3421,3422
Close Pressed #s 3423,3424,3425
Jerry
Sticky Notes: Change Default look 
