Removing sidebar on all finder folders?

Is it possible to avoid the recurring situation that when you move a file to a folder LISTED in the main HD directory, it goes cleanly into the folder WINDOW, as all windows opening automatically do so with a sidebar and tool bar although the 'view options' is set default with no toolbar (so as to get rid of the sidebar on deliberate folder opening)? I don't think there is a control for opening folders more slowly, ie in practice not at all as there used to be?
At least nowadays it is impossible to put files into the sidebar as used to happen, but would very happily never see a sidebar in finder at all.

I think we are onto a loser here wdj; as the view options doesn't work too well anyway and seems to have to be reset after any restart, it doesn't seem a very strong plant for a graft
I have a couple of 'pupils' pretty new to both computers and mac and realise that the traditional mac way of doing things is becoming esoteric. I see desktops absolutely plastered with banks of icons at one extreme and my dear wife at the other who will leave absolutely no window open the second she has finished with it.
I guess also that apple now has to employ programmers who have had their minds polluted elsewhere, so we will have to be thankful for small mercies.

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