Att MS gadget men: note 1.0.0.0

Hi, like the small set of pre-loaded gadgets that come with Vista, but can't find 'Note' gadget on the gadget website. I would like to suggest a v2 feature:

It would be great if the note gadget synced online to e.g. Hotmail note widget so that my PC would not have to remain on if I wanted to stream via rss the notes to my mobile. Because that's it isn't it -- no paper. For that I see the note gadget on the sidebar synching all new note online and in turn that being accessed by a mobile phone, also any notes made online sync back to the desktop gadget.

I know it'll never happen but if you think about it that is what should happen.

Samuel, UK

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Att MS gadget men: note 1.0.0.0

Impact247

Thanks for your reply, I too have an issue with the information viewed - I think an improvement would be a red arrow descreetly appearing to show there is more text to follow, otherwise you don't know, that or it auto-scrolling down when hovering over the window (an additiona option ).

I think I know where the gadget is already as I changed some settings to allow for 100 notes (up from 10): here is the link to the posting I recieved for help with that: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.mspx dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.general&mid=f4b5bc59-769d-4eeb-83ff-a30fbe407402

let me know,

Regards

Samuel
GrayMatter Software
Excellent idea, Wilbour. Yet another suggestion might be to allow for sizing. I'd love the un-docked notes to be about twice the size it is now.

I might actually try modifying the gadget if I knew where it was located. It's definitely not in the default Gadget location and I've even tried locating it using Registry Editor. Anybody know
ChrisMcCabe
I've never been a big fan of auto-scrolling but it would be nice if there was even some kind of very small scroll bar. Nothing like you'd see in a Web browser or anything but something much smaller. The arrow is a good idea as well. Anyways, thanks for the link to that forum post. This is exactly what I was needing. I'm re-posting the location of that gadget in case someone searching comes across this thread:

"You basically open up the file "notes.js" in notepad, located in this folder

C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-g..ickynotes.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6000.16386_en-us_582f4865c6d7ffb7

Look for the line

var maxNumberNotes = 10;

and change it to

var maxNumberNotes = 100; or however many you want.

The tricky bit is then saving it, which involves modifying security
permissions on the file, and taking ownership of the file, etc.
via Right-click file > Properties > Security (as an administrator) "
Parham&#33;

So, anybody going to try and tackle the 'other' problem

wilbour
Att MS gadget men: note 1.0.0.0

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