the F12 Developer Tools windows is empty on my machine.
I've tried the following solutions, but nothing worked
7 Answers
It looks like the 'shell' part of F12 is loading, but the tools themselves aren't loading. Is there anything on your system that would impact loading a browser control from resources in a dll (specifically the F12Resources.dll). For example do you have any virus scanners or settings that block the res:// protocol? Do you see anything in the event log?
3Issue is due to the Update Versions: RTM (KB2841134).
Refer the issue on Microsoft Feedback
Best way to fix is to update the Internet Explorer 11 to the Latest Knowledge Base (KB) update
However, you can update from the below location
Control Panel\System and Security\Windows Update
Install required Important Updates and Optional Updates
According to your picture, that's not the latest version of IE11 for Windows 7.
Update to the latest version and if that doesn't help, uninstall IE11 and reinstall it (using the latest version).
You may also want to run a sfc /scannow if you haven't already, to ensure system files are in place and not corrupted.
I don't know what the problem is, but I just remark that every new version of IE destroys development tools in some way, later fixed via Windows Update.
If no one else comes up with a solution to the problem, and if you do not want to wait for Microsoft for a fix, I can offer as a temporary workaround using Firebug Lite. The Lite version is pure JavaScript, but the non-Lite version is only available as an extension of Firefox.
See this video for installing it : Installing Firebug Lite on Internet Explorer.
2Click on
System Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Internet Explorer -> Toolbars
A new window will open with the Toolbar options.
Open "Turn off developer options" and in the new window choose "DISABLED".
this happened to me in windows 8 on more than one occasion. I was at the end of my tether until I noticed that the IE icon on my toolbar was indicating that there were multiple windows. I opened it up and it was showing the browser window and inspector window. I switched to the inspector window from the toolbar IE icon and it was showing up fine on my desktop, so I clicked the button that controls if the inspector shows up in the browser window or on its own. When you detach it and use it as it's own window and it works much better.
Not sure if the same will be true for windows 7, but if anyone has this problem for windows 8, this solution seems to work :)
This happened to me and the answer was that my machine (win8.1) wasn't being patched per the group policy since the rest of the company's on win7 and the patches are controlled.
When I forced the update-- there's a link on the windows update dialog box that says "Check online for updates from Microsoft Update". I got a gig a of stuff to dl and installed it and we were fine after that.
NOTHING until then- wiping bits of the registry, uninstall ie11, reinstall, etc, worked.
