Sticky Notes is used in Windows 10 to note down quickly Contact Numbers, Email address and
many more. Many times, it is found that sticky notes deleted by mistake. It generally
happens because deleting it is easier that creating it. You have to just click
on x button to delete sticky notes. Here, I am explain method using which you
can recover deleted sticky notes and get a confirmation message before deletion
of sticky notes.
How to Recover Deleted Sticky Notes
on Windows 10-
#. First of all, launch Run dialog box using Windows
and R key simultaneously.
#. Type %ppData%\Microsoft\Sticky
Notes\ in Run command box and click on Ok
button
#. Thereafter, you will get Sticky Notes folder which will have StickyNotes (.SNT) files. Double click on StickyNotes files to open it. But you will find nothing because by
default Windows does not support .SNT format.
#. Therefore, you need to open StickyNotes file using MS
word or its equivalent.
#. When file will be opened, you will see the actual
Sticky Notes in the lower part of the document.
How to Enable Delete Confirmation for
Sticky Notes –
#. First of all, open Run command using Windows and
R key altogether.
#. In Run
dialog box, type regedit and press
on Ok button to open Registry Editor.
#. Follow
the under mentioned registry key to open Sticky
Notes
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\StickyNotes
#. Now you
will have to double click on PROMPT_ON_Delete
value and put 1 to activate Delete confirmation box.
#. After it,
whenever you click on x button of
Sticky Notes you will get a Delete confirmation dialog box.
couldn't find them that way, but did type in, the sequence, then clicked browse, searched through the list to stikynot and clicked on it which brought up C:\Windows\System32\StikyNot.exe . clicked run and my sticky notes came back.
ReplyDeleteThe %ppData%\Microsoft\Sticky Notes\ Doesn't work.
ReplyDeleteKindly follow C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
ReplyDelete