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)?

[Patrik32756243tq5b]

Thanks so much! This solution never comes up.

[Jeselle34242799297i]

How do you do that on Mac?

[EZ0D45]

Only solution that works, thanks, was about to leave 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!

[sivarajanm77861135]

this works!! - Disable New Acrobat

[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)