Hiding finder preview panel... forever I'm not sure why but quite recently Finder likes to show me the Preview panel on new Finder windows. 

I've tried every method I could find:


Hiding the preview. Close the finder and open a new window. Will show the same preview again.
Go to /Users/$username$/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist and edit the ShowPreviewPane setting it to NO. This will magically revert to YES after I relaunch the Finder.


I'm out of ideas. What could I do?
Finder->View Menu->Hide Preview.