IE8 Developer Tools Not Displaying

Question

First of all, I read the following:

• IE 8 Developer Tools not working on Windows?
• Internet Explorer 8 Developer Tools Not Displaying
• Why are my IE8 developer tools not working?

When I press F12 or select "Developer Tools" in the "Tools" menu, nothing happens.

The problem is not that the window is open, but off the screen (it does not appear on the taskbar or alt-tab). In addition, the registry does not have the registry key "IEDevTools" (I performed a search).

This is on the recently installed Windows XP VM used for compatibility testing.

Is there any other reason besides the window position and registry settings, because of which the developer tools are not displayed?

Answer 1

Immediately after IE8 loses focus in the tool window (immediately after pressing F12):

• Press ALT + Space to open the system window menu.
• Select "Move ..." (preferably by pressing "M")
• Press one of the arrow / direction keys once (e.g. down arrow)
• Now the window will be attached to the mouse until it clicks, so you can drag it to the center of the screen and change it as necessary.

Answer 2

I had a similar problem. Press Crtl + Alt + Del, and on the Management tab, left-click on IE Debugger. Options for moving, minimizing, or maximizing values ​​may help.

Answer 3

I have the same problem. It seems that the "Service" menu just does not work. I worked around

1) Enabling the debug script in the Internet settings. Go to "Tools"> "Internet Options"> "Advanced"> "Disable" to disable the debug script. 2), then the html page with the script error will open so that the script debugging dialog pops up, which then allows you to open the developer toolbar.

And then I attach this to the main window and start web development with the devtoolbar prefix.

Answer 4

Follow these steps

• After pressing F12:
• Press ALT + Space to open the system window menu.
• Select "Move ..." (preferably by pressing "M")
• Press one of the arrow / direction keys once (e.g. down arrow)
• Now the window will be attached to the mouse until it clicks, so you can drag it to the center of the screen and change it as necessary.

Answer 5

I have the same problem. And I got the following solution: just deleted the hext branch in the registry:

HKLM/Software/Policies/Microsoft/InternetExplorer/IEDevTools 

Hope this helps.

Answer 6

Mani shared an intelligent solution, I had the same problem, but none of the solutions worked, and I tried, as Mani said, and my developer tool appeared directly. The only thing I would like to add is that when the Dev tool pops up, stop debugging, otherwise it will crash the browser and you have to kill the application.