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I've been using Texmaker on Windows for a while and like it, but the panel on the left side (where the document structure and so on is) kind of annoys me. Most of the functions available there aren't relevant for me, because I'm not using any mathematical symbols, but I don't know of any way to hide ...

You should be able to do the same thing by opening an explorer window (winkey+e), go to Folder Options, and click on the File Types tab. Go down the list of extensions until you see .tex, then in the "details" box there is a "change" button that takes you to the "open with" options.

Assuming you ...