Why isn't my IE8 Developer Tools working?

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Whozumommy picture Whozumommy · Jun 7, 2009 · Viewed 40.9k times · Source

It used to work and now when I press F12 nothing happens...the window does NOT appear. I've uninstalled any other toolbars I've installed and tried resetting by security settings in IE...nothing.

I'm using Windows 7 beta

Answer

fretje picture fretje · Jun 7, 2009

Maybe someone disabled them?
Here's how you do that.

Basically: Check the following registry key:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\IEDevTools

In the worst case you can remove the whole key. This wil revert the settings back to default.

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