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1234567890_ABC
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April 18, 2019
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Eliminate Home Screen when closing last PDF?

I'm new to Acrobat DC and am used to working with individual PDFs. I've got DC setup to NOT do tabbed management of multiple open files. How do I now stop it from reverting to a "Home Screen" showing recent files when I close the last open PDF?   I think, that when I close the last open PDF, Acrobat should just go away/die.

    justlearnskills
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    October 16, 2026

    ​@Kevin350866590pbq First of all, you should have created a new post under your name versus posting on a 7 year old post! 

    To fix the Home screen to show no recent files, open your Acrobat preferences - Documents - Open Settings - Documents in recently used list to zero. 

     


    In my settings, I have unchecked all the ‘Open Settings’

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    Eva22290742hu82
    Participant
    July 22, 2022

    Mac user, same problem here in Acrobat DC. Unchecking "Show home screen when all documents are closed" has no impact. It's very frustrating to have this useless home screen blocking my view of my other applications. I saw a post elsewhere where someone said they'd changed their default OS settings to use Preview to view PDFs just to avoid this feature, and I might actually end up doing that, even though I'm opening PDFs all day.

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      davideverywherebrand
      Participating Frequently
      July 22, 2022

      That's such a good idea - well done Adobe pdf - shot yourself in the foot - very well done. I'm also using FIGMA as a replacement for ILLUSTRATOR. I guess this is what happens when ADOBE DOESN'T LISTEN to thier users. 

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        davideverywherebrand
        Participating Frequently
        July 11, 2022

        This doesn't work for me - any ideas? I still get the anoying home screen application window blocking everythign else from view - is like someone deliberatly getting infront of you view while you're trying to watch tv - seroiusly frustrating why it's default!

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          saturnsf
          Participant
          June 10, 2022

          I hate this feature with a white hot passion. As others have noticed (and others have disagreed with), checking the "hide home screen" option does not hide the home screen at all. Never. This is constantly in my way, and is one of the worst "updates" I've ever seen. At this point, it's clear Adobe won't respond to the many requests to get rid of this (and what's with that ineffective checkbox?)

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            davideverywherebrand
            Participating Frequently
            July 11, 2022

            Any solutions - I'm staggered by there's no obvoius help or reaction from something so obvoiusly frustating. I'M MOVING TO FIGMA from now on. Stcik that in your pipes Adobe - you didn;t learn QUARKS lesson did you? 

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              photoretouchpro
              photoretouchpro
              Inspiring
              November 11, 2020

              This is terrible. Please disable this like you can on all other CC software.

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                ryan.thorpe
                ryan.thorpe
                Participant
                September 27, 2020

                It's super annoying... I can't get rid of it either!!! I would love to... it's rubbish and I never use it! Adobe? Are you listenting?!!

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                  ToddPrepress100
                  Participating Frequently
                  June 3, 2019

                  Maybe this screen shot will help.

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                    Matthew Graham
                    Participant
                    October 23, 2019

                    The Home Screen is a real time-wasting annoyance in my studio. We already have an operating system from Apple for finding and managing files, and we all have  learned to use it. Placing an "OS-Lite" in the way of tasks we need to complete is the opposite of good UX design. We need achieve MORE WITH LESS, not the same with more. Please Adobe... read this, and the many threads on this topic... and make the universally hated Home Screen switch off-able.

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                      ToddPrepress100
                      Participating Frequently
                      November 19, 2019

                      I agree that we do not need an additional OS-Lite on top of the MacOS. I especially despise the Home screen because I work in Prepress and continually have to open PDFs to edit them and then save them. I am forced to use the AdobeOS Lite to navigate to where I want to save the file. Very annoying Adobe! Give us the option to turn off!

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                        mulin_whu
                        Participant
                        May 31, 2019

                        Why does the app open randomly?

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                        ToddPrepress100
                        Participating Frequently
                        May 31, 2019

                        I think 1234567890!ABC simply wants to know how to disable the "Recent" or "Home" screen (not sure what Adobe calls it?) I find it constantly in my way also. When you close an open PDF it  automatically opens (even if you have previously closed it) and blocks my view of the desktop. I have yet to use any of the "Features" of this screen. Please give us a way to disable this "Feature".

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                          Bernd Alheit
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                          May 31, 2019

                          MS Windows or MacOS?

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                          try67
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                          try67Community Expert
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                          May 31, 2019

                          I'm assuming Mac OS, as that doesn't happen on Windows.

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                            jane-e
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                            jane-eCommunity Expert
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                            April 19, 2019

                            Hi

                            If you Quit Acrobat with documents open, then both the application and the documents will close. You will be asked whether or not to save unsaved files. It works this way in most computer applications, not just Acrobat.

                            ~ Jane

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                              try67
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                              April 19, 2019

                              That's not possible. If you want to close the application you have to do so yourself. It will not close automatically when you close the last open file.

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