Hide "All tools" pane?

[James30818644amb9]

Same problem as everyone else under the sun: I cannot figure out how to permanently hide the "All Tools" menu on Acrobat Pro 2023.003.20215.

Preferences > Documents > Open Settings > Remember Current State ... is just missing for me (and apparently for others, too.) And, depressingly, the registry keys bRHPSticky and bExpandRHPinViewer don't seem to affect Acrobat Pro.

Having to close and re-close the "All Tools" menu every single time I open a new PDF, all day every day, is exhausting and I hate it. Does anyone know a fix for this (aside from switching away from Adobe)?

[Tyl35014753k0m7]

THANK YOU! This has been driving me crazy.

[Guest]

Amazing!

[Artemis_666]

wow, you a God!!!

[Stefanie36525637j9bw]

Thank you so much!!!!!!

[John38903483enes]

You are the favorite part of my day today!  This is SUPER annoying and is 100%, absolutely an anti-user, corporate endorsed feature.   It's to constantly have the 'opportunity' to upgrade to paid client. 

[Marek24797926508w]

Thanks!

[James308817653e9h]

I'm using Adobe Acrobat Reader ver2023.003.20215/64-bit. I do not have the option to revert to Old Version. The only thing I have found that works is:

Open a pdf in Adobe.

Go to Edit>Preferences>Documents and make sure the top option "Restore last view settings when reopening documents" and the option "Remember current state of tools pane" are UNCHECKED.

Click Ok to close the Preferences window.

Close the Toolbar.

Go back to Edit>Preferences>Documents and check both boxes. Click Ok to close that window again.

Close that document and when you open another document the Toolbar should stay hidden (it has for me so far).

Hope this helps.

[stang91478321]

Hi!  I'm on a newer version of Acrobat Reader: 2003.006.20320 and, unfortunately, none of the above solutions work.  Any new ideas?

[stang91478321]

Submitted a comment about this not working qith Adome here: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/disable-right-hand-pane-in-acrobat-reader.html

[James308817653e9h]

Unfortunately, I don't know about a newer version. I only found my trick by accident. Every step has to be done in order but, what does the new version offer for options? Something different than what I described?

[stang91478321]

It’s essentially the same thing, but it does not work either.

[Jessica32542579mew0]

Try selecting the "Menu" in the top left hand corner. Then choose "Disable new Acrobat Reader". It will take you back to the older view and get rid of the evil "All Tools"

[stang91478321]

Don't see that as an option.  I think Adobe disabled that after the "new" version was out for a bit. 

[moraes87]

Unfortunately that didn't work for me. Even checking "Restore last view settings when reopening documents" and "Remember current state of tools pane" options, the "All tools" pane keeps showing up every time I open Acrobat Reader, and it's really annoying!

[James308817653e9h]

It didn't work for me the first time I tried it. I had to follow the exact
steps as I posted them, it worked for my version. I have had others say it
didn't work for their version though.

--
James Hernandez

[jamesg43725862]

Thank you James, this routine worked for me. Tip: Remember to scroll down and click OK.☺

[Benjamin323674807sfq]

I've found a working solution for admins that want to push this out en-masse to their users.  While I'm not on the latest version of Reader (due to other problems with the "New Adobe" and my users), I am running 2023.003.20284.  I know there is a vulnerability in this version, but we have pretty tight security and this is in a non-persistent VDI environment.
The solution was actually a combination of two solutions posted to this problem for ages.

HKCU bRHPSticky = 1 DWORD

HKCU bExpandRHPInViewer = 0
Rename Appcenter_R.aapp, Home.aapp and Viewer.aapp in Program directory\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroApp\ENU
By using GPO, even new users have their PDF's open with no toolbars on either side of a PDF now.  Small things make them happy, so I figured I'd share.  This is 32-bit version of Reader (64-bit was crashing all the time) btw.

[Deborah32906663lzpr]

Thank you, James! The "All tools" panel was driving me crazy, too! I appreciate it!

[Caine32910379h2il]

This is absurd.

[Case2152]

OMG.. thank you!!

[br1sj]

I accidentally found the solution to this issue.  Right click on the right side panel>>Unpin contents (or anything else being pinned)

[David34403508he8t]

James

There is no Disable New Acrobat when I click Menu.  What next?

David

[Ken354587877k8a]

Thank you!

[Henrique36364983p3sh]

You can press F4 do disable right panel and shift+F4 to disablem left panel.

[Charlie Arehart]

I know there a smart bunch of people here, and many are really incensed over this issue. But I'd like to offer a suggestion if like me you found one of the simpler solutions offered here "did not work".

I preferred NOT to solve things by turning off the "new" reader. But I DID find that enabling the setting for "Remember last state of the All tools panel" works for me, in July 2024 (on version 2024.002.20895 64-bit on Windows).

That said, if it "doesn't work" for you, here's something I experienced at first: don't miss that you MUST click the "ok" button at the bottom of that menu>preferences>documents window. If you just click the "x" in the top right of the window to close it, that will NOT save the setting.

If you might presume "nobody would make that mistake", note that on an HD resolution monitor (like my laptop or in a remote desktop session as one might experience it) the "ok" button does NOT appear on screen unless you scroll down to see it! (I experienced this problem and felt at first the setting change "wasn't working for me" either, until I realized what was amiss.) So I wanted to share if they may help someone else. It would also apply for any other settings changes done in that preferences window.

Still, I appreciate that there may be some other situations where somehow this setting really "does not work" for some.