Google Chrome developer tools disabled

Question

My Google Chrome developer tools are disabled. I\'m not sure how it happened. I was using them in the morning then went to use them in the afternoon and the F12 button wou

Answer 1

Open regedit (Registry Editor) and find the DeveloperToolsAvailability key by first going to this path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome\

... then click Chrome and select DeveloperToolsAvailability from the list on the right. Double click it and change it from 2 to either 1 or 0. Click OK and close regedit, then close Chrome and re-open it. Chrome dev tools should now be enabled.

However, depending on your system, you may instead have the DeveloperToolsDisabled key in that same path. If so, delete that.