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Is Inspect a part of the Windows 10 standalone SDK?
Is there any alternative application to "inspect" for windows 10? I want to install "inspect" tool on my machine running windows 10 build 10586 (for testing purpose). According to Inspect documentation on MSDN it is not described if it is a part of win 10 sdk also or only upto win 8.1. Also is there any alternative tool for "Inspect" to debug on windows 10?
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To enable Developer Tools, press F12. Or, go to the Tools menu and select Developer Tools. To display the Tools menu, press Alt+X. To inspect elements on a web page, right-click the page, then select Inspect Element.
Inspect.exe is located in the \bin\<version>\<platform> folder of the SDK installation path (you don't typically have to run as administrator).
In windows 10, Inspect.exe is available at C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.
You can install Inspect.exe in multiple ways, one is you download the Windows SDK following this link or you can get the file from here. However the file uploaded on GitHub is the old one so it is recommended that you use Inspect EXE as a part of Windows SDK.
If you can't find the tool in the Windows 10 SDK, you should be able to download and install the Windows 8.1 SDK from the SDK archive page: Inspect is available here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.18362.0\x64. Based on version changes you can find it in one of the versions under the x64 folder.
Inspect.exe uses the EXE file extension, which is more specifically known as a Inspection file. It is classified as a Win32 EXE (Executable application) file, created for CloudSupport by Trend Micro . The first version of Inspect.exe for Trend Micro Maximum Security 16 was seen on 09/10/2019 in Windows 10.
Inspect.exe is located in the bin< version >< platform > folder of the SDK installation path (you don't typically have to run as administrator).
Since 10.0.15063 the directory of the tools has changed. See the changelog:
To improve the developer experience, tools and metadata will lay down in versioned folders. This will allow developers to isolate the SDK and tools between releases.
You have to put the version of the Windows SDK between bin and x64 (or x86 or arm)
For me inspect is in the folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.15063.0\x64
The folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x64 (without the SDK version) exists, but does not contain the inspect tool.
Needed Components for "Inspect":
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Inspect is, indeed, included in the Windows 10 "standalone SDK" available from Microsoft here. Note the installer stub allows you to download several "features" (additional toolkits and utility packages) besides the Windows SDK proper. If all you want is Inspect, you can save yourself downloading about 300MB (650MB installed) of unnecessary packages by deselecting everything except "Windows Software Development Kit":
As for an alternative to Inspect, this answer suggests Windows Detective. Not having used the tool, I can't speak personally to its safety or suitability for the purpose, so caveat emptor, YMMV, May the Force Be With You and all that.
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