Sticky Notes - Create and Delete

How to Create and Delete Sticky Notes in Windows 7 and Windows 8​

   Information

Sticky Notes allows you to type and leave a Post-it type note on your desktop until deleted.

This tutorial will show you how to create and delete Sticky Notes in Windows 7 and Windows 8.

   Warning

Sticky Notes is not available in the Windows 7 Starter and Home Basic editions.

OPTION ONE

To Create a Sticky Note

1. Press the Windows + R keys to open the Run dialog, type stikynot, and press Enter.

2. Type in your message, and move the Sticky Note to where you like it to be displayed on the desktop. (See screenshot below)
NOTE: It will remain there until you delete it.

3. To Resize the Sticky Note
A) Click/tap and hold on the arrow tab at the bottom right corner, or move the mouse point to the edge of an existing Sticky Note until it turn into a double arrow, and drag the Sticky Note to the size you want it to be. (See screenshot below)

OR

B) Move the mouse pointer over any one of the borders of the sticky note itself until the pointer turns into a double arrow, then drag the border back and forth to adjust it's width or hight to how you like.
4. To Create another New Sticky Note
A) Click/tap on the + sign at the top left corner of an existing Sticky Note, or press Ctrl+N, to open another new blank Stick Note. (See screenshot below)

B) Repeat steps 2 and 3 above.

OPTION TWO

To Delete a Sticky Note

1. Click/tap on the X sign at the top right corner of an existing Sticky Note, or press Ctrl+D, to delete that Sticky Note. (See screenshot below)

2. Click/tap on Yes to confirm deletion. (See screenshot below)




That's it,
Shawn

Related Tutorials

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• How to Change the Color of a Sticky Note in Windows 7 and Windows 8
• How to Format Text in a Sticky Note in Windows 7 and Windows 8
• How to Backup and Restore Sticky Notes in Windows 7 and Windows 8
• How to Change the Default Font in Sticky Notes in Windows 7 and Windows 8
• How to Enable or Disable Sticky Notes Delete Confirmation in Windows 7 and Windows 8

 

[ssteve]

can you save sticky notes? thanks.

 

[Brink]

Hello Steve,

Sorry, but saving the sticky note as a file is not a option. As long as you do not delete the sticky notes, they will stay on your desktop even after a shutdown, restart, log off, sleep, or hibernate.

 

[satchmo]

It's a little-mentioned new feature of Windows 7, but I really like this little app.

 

[3strokes]

I like it and then..............

Yes, it's useful but what I don't like is that when you have one or more sticky notes active, then you have an icon called "Sticky Notes" in the taskbar. IF I ever want to know or see if I have any notes all I have to do is go to Show Desktop.

 

[baitmn]

how do I remove or disable sticky notes from reappearing when I restart windows.

 

[Brink]

Hello Baitmn, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Deleting all of the sticky notes will have them not display at startup anymore.

 

[seekermeister]

Perhaps I'm being too picky, but the one thing that annoys me about Sticky Notes is that it continues to display it's icon on the Taskbar. Is there no way to have it appear in the System Tray instead?

 

[Bill2]

Perhaps I'm being too picky, but the one thing that annoys me about Sticky Notes is that it continues to display it's icon on the Taskbar. Is there no way to have it appear in the System Tray instead?

Check out this tool.

http://www.sevenforums.com/software/45304-sticky-notes-taskbar-hider-send-notes-tray.html

 

[3timesoccermom]

Realize this is an ancient thread but hoping for help anyway. I use Sticky notes and love them. I recently accidentally deleted 2 and while searching for a solution saw an option to have a "do you want to delete this" message come up before they are deleted. I have followed the regedit instructions to re-enable the messages but it doesn't work. Is there something else I can do to have the message come up if I accidentally hit the delete again?

 

[Brink]

Hello 3timesoccermom, and welcome to Seven Forums.

If you have any sticky notes opened, you will need to log off and log on to apply after changing the DWORD below to 1.

Sticky Notes Delete Confirmation - Enable or Disable in Windows 7 8 - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

[3timesoccermom]

OK thank you. I will try that.

 

[Brink]

You're most welcome. Please let us know how it went.

 

[3timesoccermom]

Brink thank you for taking the time to reply but I changed it to 1, then re-booted my computer and it did not work. I created a new sticky note and hit the "x" and it was deleted with no warning.

 

[Brink]

Does the PROMPT_ON_DELETE DWORD still show being set to 1?

Just to verify, are you running the stikynot file for Sticky Notes? I only ask in case you may have installed and using a 3rd party Sticky Notes type program instead.

 

[3timesoccermom]

I'm running the one that came on the computer. I am not very savvy about these things so not sure how to tell that.

 

[3timesoccermom]

Does this help?

 

[3timesoccermom]

I just noticed the value for the "prompt on..." is now back on 0. Not sure why.

 

[Brink]

As a test, change it back to 1, but only log out and log in instead of restarting the PC to see if it will stay set to 1.

 

[3timesoccermom]

testing