How do I remove the right hand pane in Reader DC (LOCKED)

[Guest]

How do I remove the right hand pane (export pdf, create pdf, edit pdf, etc.) on Reader DC?  It takes up a quarter of my screen and I never use that stuff!

Thanks for your help!

[CAlex6977]

Thanks for figuring this out. It totally worked. I had to do something like this in a previous version too. You have saved me hours of frustration.

[wesk93409903]

Thank you! Works for Windows 7 too.

[share6667]

Yes!  I like UGLY.  Thank you.

Dear Adobe - please stop shoving features down our throats.  Your contempt for the user community is certainly showing. 

[mtho]

Adobe Reader DC wins best App Design Award: http://adobe.ly/1HL1Vzm

[KNagle]

Fabulous! Thank you!

[MEDaugherty]

Ulgy but fabulous workaround!

Adobe, I will use an alternative pdf reader if you try to force this in my face.

[Jonathan_Mogle]

How insane that they don't allow you to disable this from preferences! Thanks for the fix though tmmcentyre, that worked like a charm.

Adobe, fix this before I move my company to another PDF reader... this is unacceptable that we have to go and modify the program files to achieve this.

[blackmouses]

Dude I created this profile just to thank you! ❤️

I'd rather donate to you than to adobe.

Keep up!

[charlesshu]

^ Me too.  I hate bad software designs...  and designers who don't care their designs are bad.

ANNOYING move Adobe!

[timeasley]

Oh man, thanks for this! Was annoying the hell out of me! Why on earth Adobe keep forcing stuff like this on us is beyond me...

In case this helps anyone, in Windows 7 my folder is here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat\AcroApp\ENU

I also did what jorger said above, which was simply to move "Viewer.aapp".

[mikek56473203]

Thanks It worked for me TOO! FINALYYYYYYYYY! I was looking for some other software...and came across your post

[dlhoyt]

It worked beautifully for me, too! Plus, there is an additional benefit: the file opens immediately and there is no waiting for the tools pane to close. The Adobe design team should have at least put in an option to have this pane closed.

[t_cross]

Thanks for the simple solution!

[lady1743]

Thanks! This worked for Windows 7 Acrobat DC. I personally like the upgrade over my old X Pro. A lot of nice new functionality for my company's needs.

[svenmagnus1965]

As a media designer it is not acceptable for me. I only need the previous view. Not a sidebar. It is a lot of time-wasting to always type the shortcut Shift + F4 to remove the annoying sidebar. I don't want to do any programming to change it. 

[Guest]

Thanks - that worked for me on my HP laptop with Win 8.1. I can't for the life of me see why Adobe made this gross error of judgement - hope they fix it soon.

Bob Davies

[Guest]

You just made my day!  I thought I was being too persnickety - I'm so glad other people are annoyed by this too!  Now I just have to convince Netflix to change back to white screens with black typeface! 🙂 

[javidiazl]

Great, tmmcentyre.

The location of that folder on Windows (spanish version) is: "C:\Archivos de programa\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroApp\ESP"

Thank you so much.

[Red Aqua Media]

Perfect @tmmcentyre !!! THANK YOU!

[Guest]

DEFINITELY the best solution!!

Works just fine with My Windows 7 (64 bit). DC on 32 bit

Also, just thought I'd mention that you can set "Recent files" to "0" in DC unlike previous versions where yo had to edit registry not to show Recent files.

[tomc11626246]

Thank you!  Thank you!!  Thank you !!!  I was about to uninstall this @#$@#$  thing because it was driving me nuts!  Did I say thank you? 

[MrJohnLilly]

Awesome fix tmmcentyre! Thank you.

[Guest]

No, this did not work. Once I log in as a different user, the sidebar pane is back. Please update this with a working fix Adobe.

[~graffiti]

Maybe some of you posters that came later in the game missed the post by Lori that this is fixed in the newest update for Reader...

[BJBBJB1]

I do not think it is fixed for CC version. Last time I checked,  no update offered.

BJBBJB1