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

Stupidav

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
Patrick Brand
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
zwp

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

wilbour
Kent Boogaart
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) "
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