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"Remember State of Tools Pane" never works

The "Remember Current State of Tools Pane" option under Preferences...Documents never actually remembers anything. I close the annoyingly huge tools pane every single time I open a PDF, and every single time it comes back again.
You forced me to "upgrade" to this version of Acrobat Reader, and it drives me insane. There was a reason I installed the old reader with the simple interface that worked.
win10 home 22H2, reader version 2023.001.20174, but I'm pretty sure this has been a problem for as many versions as I can remember.

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  • Charlie Arehart commented  ·   ·  Report

    For readers who may prefer to solve things without turning off the "new" reader, I find that enabling the setting for "Remember last state of the All tools panel" DOES indeed work for me, in June 2024 (on version 2024.002.20857 64-bit on Windows).

    For those who find "it does NOT work", here's something I experienced: 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 presume "nobody would make that mistake", note that on an HD resolution monitor the "ok" button does not appear unless you scroll down! (I experienced it, and tested what happens.)

    Just trying to help. I realize there may be some situations where somehow it still really "does not work" for some.

  • Yasir Alam commented  ·   ·  Report

    I hate the proliferation of software that just demands and crams what they think you should want down your throat.

    This tools pane setting has honestly been annoying enough to switch away from Adobe

    Sadly as the default option, it won't make a dent in how they do things.

  • Craig Duttweiler commented  ·   ·  Report

    Mitch: agreed. I'd be surprised if it took more than 5 lines of code to fix it. Pretty clearly their marketing schmucks are running the show and cramming it down our throats because it pushes some paid services.

    Frieda: There are gobs of them. You can just google for "best free PDF reader". But after trying a few, I settled on Foxit. FWIW. YMMV.

  • Mitch Bedzyk commented  ·   ·  Report

    Unfortunately, it seems that the tools pane is intentionally designed to remain open, despite what preferences you select. If they cared, they could have fixed this by now.

  • Frieda Clark commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm with you Craig. Yet in your post on August 2, you do not disclose what the alternative pdf reader is.

  • Craig Duttweiler commented  ·   ·  Report

    I solved it by uninstalling Adobe Acrobat and installing one of the other perfectly fine, free, and totally FUNCTIONAL alternatives. If Adobe doesn't care to fix their bugs, then I don't care to use their software.

  • JungHun Ban commented  ·   ·  Report

    Currently it doesn't work for me as well.

    I solved it through clicking on "Disable new Acrobat Reader" in menu tab.

    Old Acrobat Reader works with "remember current state of tools pane" opion for me.