Sticky Notes, first introduced with Windows Vista, is an amazing utility to quickly write down ideas or everything else that comes to your mind.
Deleting a Sticky Notes on the desktop is easier than creating it! You just need to click the close X button located upper-right corner of a Note. With default settings, Sticky Notes does ask for the confirmation when click the close button but if you have turned off the feature, it will simply delete the note instead of closing when you click the X button.
If you accidentally deleted a Sticky Note in Windows 7, 8 or 10, here is how to recover the deleted note without the help of third-party tools:
Step 1: Open Run command box by simultaneously pressing Windows + R keys.
Step 2: In the Run box, paste this path %AppData%\Microsoft\Sticky Notes\ and then press Enter key.
Step 3: Under Sticky Notes folder, you should see StickyNotes (.SNT) file. Double-clicking on the file will not give you any results because Windows doesn’t associate .SNT extension to Sticky Notes or any other program with default settings.
Now, right-click on that StickyNotes(.SNT) file and then open it with a text editing program. For the best results, we recommend you open the file with Microsoft Office Word program or eventually Notepad.
Once the file is opened, the actual contents of the Note will appear towards the end of the document.
Bonus: Enable delete confirmation for Sticky Notes
If you have turned off delete confirmation prompt for Sticky Notes, we recommend you turn on the same to avoid going through the above steps again in future. Complete the given below steps to enable delete confirmation box for Sticky Notes.
Step 1: Open Registry Editor by typing Regedit in Start menu search bar or Run box and then pressing Enter key.
Step 2: Navigate to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\StickyNotes
Step 3: On the right-side, double-click on PROMPT_ON_Delete value and change its value from 0 to 1 (one) to enable the delete confirmation. From now onward whenever you click the X button on a note, you’ll see ‘’Delete Note: Are you sure you want to delete this Note” warning message on the screen with Yes and No buttons.