The Sticky Notes accessory enables you to plaster the electronic equivalent of good old-fashioned Post-It notes all over your Windows desktop. You can even colour code them to help you stay organized. They remain securely wherever you put them on the desktop until you delete them!
To create a Sticky Note
- Click Start→All Programs→Accessories→Sticky Notes. Windows opens a new blank note on the desktop, positioning the cursor at the beginning of the note. You can also right-click Sticky Notes →Send to→Desktop (create shortcut) to create a desktop short for Stick notes
- Type the text of the note. You can also format the note text if you want.
- When you finish entering the note text, simply click somewhere on the desktop outside the sticky note itself.
Alternatively,
- you can click the New Note button (the one with the plus sign) to start a new sticky note.
- The note you create will stay on the desktop.
More
- To colour-code a sticky note, right-click the note and then click the colour you want.
- To delete a note that you no longer need, click its Delete button in the upper-right corner.
The Sticky Notes Quick Launch button
If you use sticky notes, you’ll want to get acquainted with the Sticky Notes Quick Launch button on the taskbar. Click it once to temporarily hide all the sticky notes on your desktop. To bring all of your sticky notes back to the desktop or to the top of the windows on the desktop, click it again.
And
The first time you delete a note, Windows asks you to confirm the deletion.
If you don’t want to see this alert again, select the Don’t Display This Message Again check box before you click yes.
Overlapped
When you open an Explorer window that overlaps a note, you can bring the sticky note to the top of the pile by clicking any visible part of the sticky note. If nothing is visible, click the Sticky Notes Quick Launch button on the taskbar.