How to Enable Desktop Stickers in Windows 11

Desktop Stickers in Windows 11 lets you add custom images and emojis directly onto your desktop background. This fun, built-in feature turns your static wallpaper into a more personalized space, similar to placing stickers on a physical item.

Enabling Desktop Stickers is straightforward, even if you’re not a computer expert. You can start decorating your desktop with these visual flair in just a few steps. This feature is currently in testing and might behave a little differently on each PC.

Desktop Stickers work on only one monitor at a time and may require administrator rights to set up. This new feature helps you make your computer uniquely yours.

What Are Desktop Stickers?

Desktop Stickers in Windows 11 allow you to add fun graphics, such as images or animations, directly on top of your desktop background picture. You can select different stickers, reposition them, and resize them. These stickers remain on your desktop, personalizing your computer screen.

You can select different stickers, move the desktop stickers around on your screen, and change the desktop sticker size. Your desktop stickers will stay in place even if you change your desktop background, as long as you set the desktop background to "Fill." This feature makes your computer workspace feel special and adds joy to your day.

How to Turn On Desktop Stickers

Ready to make your desktop unique? Here’s how to enable the Desktop Stickers feature using Windows settings. You won’t need to download any extra files.

Step 1Open the Registry Editor

• Click the Windows Start button (the Windows icon on your taskbar).
• Type regedit into the search bar.
• When "Registry Editor" shows up in the search results, right-click on it and choose "Run as administrator".

A User Account Control (UAC) window, which manages permissions, might prompt, "Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device?" Click "Yes".

Step 2Go to the Right Place in the Registry

In the Registry Editor, locate the navigation pane on the left side. Navigate to the exact path `HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Stickers`, which contains settings for desktop stickers.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\current\device\Stickers

If the Stickers folder isn't there under device, create it. Right-click the parent folder, choose New, then Key, and name the new folder Stickers. Click on the newly created folder to select it.

Step 3Create the EnableStickers Setting

After navigating to the 'Stickers' folder in the Registry Editor, you need to create a new setting to turn on desktop stickers. Right-click on an empty space in the right-hand pane, select 'New', and then choose 'DWORD (32-bit) Value'. Rename the new item that appears immediately to 'EnableStickers'.

• With the Stickers folder selected on the left, look at the right side of the window.
• Right-click on an empty space in the right pane.
• In the menu that appears, select New, and then choose DWORD (32-bit) Value.
• A new item will appear, likely named "New Value #1". Rename it right away to EnableStickers. Type it exactly like that, with a capital 'E' and a capital 'S'.
• Now, double-click on the EnableStickers value you just created.

A small window called "Edit DWORD (32-bit) Value" will open. In the "Value data" box, you will see a number. Change this number to 1.

Click "OK" to save your change.

Step 4Restart Your Computer

After making changes in the Registry Editor to enable or disable desktop stickers, you must restart your computer for these changes to take effect. Close the Registry Editor completely. Then, click the Start menu, select the power icon, and choose 'Restart'. Your computer will then boot up with the sticker option updated.

• Close the Registry Editor window.
• Click the Start button.
• Click the Power icon.
• Choose "Restart".

Remember to save any work you have open before restarting!

How to Turn Off Desktop Stickers

If you decide you don't want to use stickers anymore, or if you have any problems, turning off the feature is possible. You'll follow the same steps as turning it on, but you'll change one setting in the registry.

Step 1Open Registry Editor as Administrator

Like before, open the Registry Editor with administrator rights. Follow the same instructions as in Step 1 of the "How to Turn On Desktop Stickers" section.

Step 2Go to the Stickers Key

Navigate to the exact same location in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\current\device\Stickers

Make sure you are inside the Stickers folder.

Step 3Change the EnableStickers Setting

To disable desktop stickers, find the 'EnableStickers' value you created in the right pane of the Registry Editor and double-click it. Change the 'Value data' from 1 to 0 and click 'OK' to save. Alternatively, you can remove the sticker feature entirely by right-clicking 'EnableStickers' and selecting 'Delete'.

• In the right pane, find the EnableStickers value you created.
• Double-click on EnableStickers.
• In the "Value data" box, change the number from 1 to 0.
• Click "OK" to save the change.

Alternatively, you can remove the EnableStickers value completely. To do this, right-click on the EnableStickers value in the right pane and select Delete. Click "Yes" to confirm.

Step 4Restart Your Computer

As with turning the feature on, you need to restart your computer for the changes to take effect.

• Close the Registry Editor.
• Restart your computer using the Start menu.

After your computer restarts, the Desktop Stickers option should no longer appear in your personalization settings or the desktop context menu.

Summary

Desktop Stickers, an experimental feature in Windows 11, allows you to add graphics to your desktop background. To turn on this feature, you must edit the Windows Registry. Open the Registry Editor as an administrator, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\current\device\Stickers, create a new DWORD value named EnableStickers, set its data to 1, and then restart your computer.