As I work through out the day, I usually have an instance of Notepad open to keep a running to do list, copy and paste a chunk of code into before I test big changes etc. I have always been some what jealous of the the built in sticky notes on the Mac, but I decided to find a simple (don't have to buy anything or write anything) way to have the same thing in Windows.

Let me preface that somewhat, we all work for a living and part of that work is in Office, so I am going to assume that we all have it already.

Grab your office icon and make a shortcut to it on the desktop.
Add /c ipm.stickynote to the target field, for instance, mine looks like this "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE" /c ipm.stickynote
You should also see a Shortcut key on the same screen in properties. I assigned Ctrl - Alt - S to mine
You can also choose a new icon for your shortcut, I made mine an icon of...the Office Sticky Note

Bam. Ctrl - Alt - S, new sticky note.

All the note pad, half the fat.