[Fixed] Stickies won't open on my computer

Hello Liz & JMW,
First : Welcome to the PortableApps.com forums, both of you.
Second: AFAIK, nobody can delete comments except Admins, Mods and Management personnel as listed on the "Our Team" page, and your post gets locked when someone replies to it, so it's stuck there now.
Third : Wow! chill out a little Liz. These issues, being very similar and happening so close together time wise, could very well be related, and getting a comment on your thread really doesn't make it any less likely that people will pay attention to it. (actually it moves it back to the top of the Recent Posts page, which makes it a little more likely that people will notice it.)

Also, as far as forum etiquette goes, you made yourself sound really … rude … (not saying you meant it that way, but it seems to read that way), so it might have been better if you had said something more like ‘That sounds like it's probably a different issue to me, you should start a separate thread for it’.

Anyway, I don't personally use Stickies (Portable or Installed), so I don't know if I can be of much help, but I tested out a clean (Portable) install (Win 7 Pro x64), and had no issues getting it running.
I dug around in the Base App's Author's Knowledge Base, and found an indication that Stickies relies on the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 DLLs, so I'm going to recommend that you (both) try either installing the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86) or copying these files from WinMerge Portable's folder "…\WinMergePortable\App\WinMerge" to Stickies Portable's folder "…\StickiesPortable\App\stickies":

• mfc90.dll
• mfc90u.dll
• mfcm90.dll
• mfcm90u.dll
• Microsoft.VC90.CRT.manifest
• Microsoft.VC90.MFC.manifest
• msvcm90.dll
• msvcp90.dll
• msvcr90.dll

I'd like it if both of you (and anyone else having issues getting Stickies Portable to start) would try one of these possible solutions and report back.

Thanks,

Do you have more than one folder starting with "progra" in C: ?

What you're reporting here is a different issue than what the thread is about so should get it's own thread. If neither of these work, please create a new thread for your issue and be sure to include the following details: your operating system version, 32-bit/64-bit, install path, any antivirus/firewall running, any other pertinent details. Help us help you!

First try these slight variations of the commands listed in the knowledge base article:

regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\DAO\dao360.dll"

and

regsvr32.exe "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\DAO\dao360.dll"

And if that doesn't work, next try these variations

regsvr32.exe /u "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\DAO\dao360.dll"

and

regsvr32.exe "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\DAO\dao360.dll"

Please remember that if neither of these work for you, you should NOT continue to post on this thread as this thread is about a different issue, and is marked as Fixed.
Please instead start a new thread where we can attempt to address your issue separate from the issue reported on this thread.

Also note that your issue sounds like an issue with the Base App which means that we are not necessarily going to be able to help you fix it as PortableApps.com specialises in the Portablisation of Apps, not in the repair of misbehaving apps and/or PCs, so a question to the Base App's author would probably be more beneficial.