Ultimate Guide to Recover Deleted Sticky Notes in Windows

"How do you recover deleted Sticky Notes in Windows 7? I mistakenly deleted many important sticky notes on my laptop but don't know how to get them back. I searched for the solutions on the internet while all of them failed to recover sticky notes. Is there any useful way?"

"By accident, I lost my sticky notes in Windows 10. Is there any simple way to recover them? Anyone know the Windows 10 sticky notes location? I heard that, there would still be something of a ghost remaining in the file where Sticky Notes save the notes to. Any help?"

Have you ever faced the situation that you created some sticky notes but mistakenly deleted it?

Actually, creating sticky notes is a convenient way to remind you of the things you want to do. It is quite useful for you to better remember many significant events. So it will be very annoying if you accidently delete those sticky notes.

This article will help you get a clear understanding of Microsoft sticky notes. What's more, you can learn effective ways to recover sticky notes.

• Part 1. What is Sticky Notes
• Part 2. How to recover deleted sticky notes (Common way)
• Part 3. Professional way to recover deleted sticky notes in Windows 10/8/7

Part 1. What is Sticky Notes

Sticky Notes is a built-in application that comes with Windows 10 by default. In fact, it was first introduced with Windows Vista for quickly writing down the facts, upcoming events, tasks, telephone number, contact, and other important information that comes to your mind.

Sticky Notes enables you to change the fonts size, background color and much more like bolded, highlighted, enlarge words, italicized, and more. You can easily create a sticky note and then access it whenever you want.

Part 2. How to recover deleted sticky notes (Common way)

Don't panic if you accidently deleted Sticky Notes in Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10. As we mentioned above, there are still ways to help you restore sticky notes. And in this part, we will show you a regular way to recover your notes.

Step 1 Press the Windows and R keys at the same time to arise the Run command box.

Step 2 Input the %AppData%\Microsoft\Sticky Notes\ in the box and then press Enter key. This will lead you to the Sticky Notes window.

Step 3 You can find a StickyNotes (.SNT) file under the Sticky Notes folder. You are not allowed to directly open this sticky notes file. Right click on it and choose Microsoft Office Word program as the opening software.

Step 4 You can check the detailed information of sticky notes after that. The actual contents of Sticky Notes will be displayed at the end part of the document.

If you are a Mac user and want to recover deleted notes from Mac, you can check this post.

Part 3. Professional way to recover sticky notes in Windows 10/8/7

With the method above, you have a big chance to find the Windows 10/8/7 sticky notes location and recover deleted notes. However, if you only get a corrupted sticky notes file and can't access its detailed information, you can rely on the professional Data Recovery.

Data Recovery is a powerful deleted sticky notes recovering tool. It can help you recover deleted or lost notes from computer, hard drive, USB flash drive, SD card, digital camera and more with ease. Various data loss situations like mistakenly deletion, formatted partition, hard drive problem, RAW hard drive, crashed computer, etc. can be easily handled. Just free download it and follow the next steps to recover sticky notes.

Step 1 Launch Data Recovery

With the download button above, download, install and run this deleted sticky notes restoring software on your computer.

Step 2 Select data type and hard drive

At the last part, you may learn the regular sticky notes location. So when you enter the main interface, you can select the specific hard drive according to that. To restore deleted Sticky Notes, you can choose Document as your target data type.

Step 3 Scan sticky notes

Data Recovery is equipped with two data scanning ways, "Quick Scan" and "Deep Scan". Click Scan button will first take the "Quick Scan" way to search for your lost files.

Step 4 Recover deleted sticky notes

After scanning, you can see all existing and lost files are listed in the interface. To quickly locate your lost sticky notes, you can use the "Filter" feature. When you find the missing sticky notes, choose them and then click on Recover button.

Just a few seconds later, all the selected sticky notes will be restored to your computer. Then you can open it as normal.

We mainly talk about how to recover Sticky Notes in this post. We tell you what Sticky Notes is at the first part. Then we show you two solutions to get your deleted sticky notes back. If you have any better method to restore sticky notes, you can leave us a message.