Pin Windows Sticky Notes on top

How can I make the Sticky Notes pin on top of everything else?? They dont seem to be real windows. There is no way to cascade/tile them either.

Saideira

Posted 2011-03-31T16:47:10.840

Reputation: 511

Answers

Another half baked idea from Microsoft, you cannot keep them on top or tile them. You would need to look for a 3rd party sticky note application that has more features.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-desktop/windows-7-sticky-notes-place-on-top-of-all-windows/b1d90084-83ac-4355-b605-dfe7432e2cf6

Moab

Posted 2011-03-31T16:47:10.840

Reputation: 54 203

2Yes, some of the 3rd sticky notes apps are stickies, Hott Note, 7 sticky notes, Notezilla, TurboNote. Most of them support keeping sticky notes on top. – Gautam Jain – 2014-03-12T06:00:39.503

You can use the NIRCMD tool. Download it here:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

then run this in the command line:

C:\> nircmd.exe win settopmost class Sticky_Notes_Top_Window 1

or maybe:

C:\> nircmd.exe win settopmost title "Sticky Notes" 1

Chin

Posted 2011-03-31T16:47:10.840

Reputation: 6 937

This worked once for me and than stopped working – Alexander Puchkov – 2014-11-19T18:05:37.563

2Note: You'll need to open the command prompt as an administrator. – Dan Atkinson – 2014-05-16T14:25:19.823

Turned out Sticky Notes is not supporting always on top now.

I'm using WinTop to keep it on top and it works great.

Deqing

Posted 2011-03-31T16:47:10.840

Reputation: 4 107

While downloading a new tool to solve the issue is dicey, I found a great solution now in OneNote, open a side note, and keep it pinned. AND you get sync AND you get formatting, search, AND SCROLL (for which I had to download another tool!) etc etc which was ridiculously missing in sticky notes.

killjoy

Posted 2011-03-31T16:47:10.840

Reputation: 213

It's not quite Windows Stickys but its just a simple program that requires no install and is just Sticky notes. It is set to be Always On Top or can be removed, nothing fancy. http://www.rndpro.com/downloads/notesontop.zip

RNDpro

Posted 2011-03-31T16:47:10.840

Reputation: 11

This is a good app, but I quite dislike the design. Have an upvote though – None – 2015-09-20T01:11:21.577

I totally recommend using dexpot to anyone, it will solve your problem no coding required, although it’s not only its sole purpose to make a window always on top. To make a window always on top, you can right click on the titlebar of the window and right click, select always on top. However, for the sticky notes, it’s a little irregular, so what i did was to set up a shortcut for it to be alt+t, so when i do alt-t, the window currently active will become “always on top” even the sticky notes! So yes, try it, it’s free, and will do alot more functions, like transparency, that you can always define a shortcut to make it easier. Cheers!

Download here: http://dexpot.de/

richie

Posted 2011-03-31T16:47:10.840

Reputation: 1

2Welcome to Superuser, Are you a salesmen for DexPot? you seem to be going for the hard sell here – 50-3 – 2013-10-21T01:21:44.297

1Haha, I am sorry, I do sound like a salesperson. But no, I am just a long time user of dexpot. And, to be honest, dexpot is even free for non-commercial use, so it's not like there's any sales going on? – richie – 2013-10-21T17:38:52.757