Sticky Notes Icon on taskbar is not combined

Anonymous
2019-06-27T20:03:04+00:00

After win 10 update, sticky notes now uses a separate taskbar tab for each note. Before update, all notes were in one tab.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-02-13T18:35:33+00:00

    Exact same problem.  Hopefully this is not a permanent change.

    One other temporary but HIGHLY inconvenient workaround is to create a new desktop and move all the Sticky Notes to that new desktop.

    These kinds of inexplicable updates to programs tempts me to go back to paper-based notes.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-01-24T20:25:41+00:00

    My biggest issue with the new one (aside from the taskbar issue) is not being able to resize text.  Why??

    For those of you that just prefer the "old" Windows desktop app version. 

    This looks like a direct port:

    wwwDOTtechspotDOTcom/downloads/7111-classic-sticky-notes.html

    This creates the same folder in appdata and you can even drop your old StickyNotes.snt file in there.  Mine reopened with all my notes in the same spots and layouts!  1/7th the amount of RAM in use compared to the new UWP app.

    I cannot verify the security or safety of this app, please install at your own risk.  There is no user level install option for this app.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-01-20T03:53:22+00:00

    Have just got to work to find out our PC's have been updated. Working in an online customer service, sticky notes was a great tool to have prepared canned response one click away. This update has left the majority of the office very pissed off as it makes our job 100x harder. None of the solutions above apply as most of us have 30+ notes on our desktops, now we have no way of getting to them quickly without minimising every other window to get to them and open the right windows back up to paste the response. Whoever though this up is actually thick. A really useful tool destroyed, I hope Microsoft fix this.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-12-04T14:05:05+00:00

    I've just run into this problem after installing Windows update. Quite surprised that this issue having been reported several months ago still isn't fixed. Please Microsoft fix it. Why break what was working fine?

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-11-26T21:41:47+00:00

    My computer just updated and broke this app in just the same way.  It seems to me that they could easily please everyone with a single toggle in the setup to combine the taskbar icons or not.  I WANT my Sticky Notes icons combined.  I do NOT want my other icons combined.  Actually this would be a great toggle for MANY programs, perhaps even make it common to ALL programs!  #DareToDream

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