Restoring lost Notes from Vista side pane

Hi,
by accident I closed Notes and when I opened it again all my notes were
gone. Is there a way to get my notes back? Maybe these notes are included in
the Vista automatic backup which is performed on my computer regularly?
Thanks for any answer!

They are stored in this file
"C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windo ws Sidebar\Settings.ini"
Use notepad to open
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"p.cosmos" <> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> by accident I closed Notes and when I opened it again all my notes were
> gone. Is there a way to get my notes back? Maybe these notes are included
> in
> the Vista automatic backup which is performed on my computer regularly?
> Thanks for any answer!