How do I use the Hand Tool as default in Adobe Reader?

How do I use the Hand Tool as default in Adobe Reader? I would like to use the Hand Tool as default for all documents in Adobe Reader on Windows.
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bert [Entry]

If you select the Hand Tool from menu (Tools / Select and Zoom), Adobe Reader should keep this setting when you open other documents later (tested with Adobe Reader 9).

bert [Entry]

"splattne's solution doesn't work for me, Adobe Reader always switches back to the Select Tool on startup. Following the hints in this thread on adobe.com, I found that the following works on Unix:

– Open ~/.adobe/Acrobat/9.0/Preferences/reader_prefs in a text editor.

– Search for the section beginning with /Selection [/c << and ending with >>].

– Replace the whole section with

/Selection [/c << /DefaultSelect [/a /Hand]
>>]

It should also work on other platforms if the corresponding preferences file can be located."