Acrobat pro 2025 (version 2025.001.20577 - 64 bit).

[johna27747512]

Hi Acrobat community

Can someone in the community please confirm if ADOBE intentionally removed "Remember Last state of the all tools pane when opening documents" in the 2025 version of Acrobat pro. ?

if so, then how do we modify .pdf documents to stop them continuously opening with the left hand tools pane opening. 

this is very frustrating. 

any feedback from the community is appreciated.

regards

JA

[AnandSri]

Hello @johna27747512

I hope you are doing well, and thanks for reaching out.

Yes, the “Remember last state of the All tools pane when opening documents” setting in the 2025 version of Acrobat Pro is not available under the preferences settings. As of now, there’s no workaround to restore this behavior in Acrobat Pro 2025. For now, you can manually collapse the left-hand tools pane.

If you wish to raise a feature request with the product team, please use the Adobe Wish form to raise the request: https://adobe.ly/4mzdTTI

Thanks,

Anand Sri.

[dhaag23]

Do you know of any registry hack that would enable this feature? Perhaps they only removed the checkbox from the UI but the underlying feature is still around?

Dirk

[S. S]

Hi @dhaag23,

Thanks for the response.

If you are still looking for a solution, you might want to refer to the correct answer marked here: https://adobe.ly/45KHCSQ.

The thread discusses a topic similar to yours and might be helpful.

Regards,
Souvik.

[dhaag23]

Thanks for following up with this. I appreciate your suggestion and tried it, but the latest version of the Acrobat Reader that I have in stalled didn't have the 'DC' related registry keys. It did have similar keys that open AcroRd32.exe, and added the '/A "navpanes=0" ' there, but it didn't work for me.

Thanks,

Dirk

[S. S]

Hi @dhaag23,

Sorry for the confusion.

You might want to try this:

Go to Start > Registry Editor > Location "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\AVGeneral"

Add D-Word: bToggleToobar

Value: 1

Let us know how it goes.

Regards,
Souvik.