Checking which ports are in use

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Comments 1. Facebook Tweet. One comment Haakon. Apr 3, at pm Reply. Leave a Comment Cancel reply Yeah! Contact me by phone only. RodionSychev The powershell command is expecting you to replace "portNumber" with the port number you are looking for.

The error states that "portNumber" isn't a number. Show 15 more comments. Also shows the binding's firewall status last column.

Very util. You need to be an administrator or in that group to run this. Can also be launched from Task Manager's Performance tab, at least in Windows Have not checked other versions. Show 4 more comments. I'm getting an error while trying to run this command on W10 How is this answer relevant to "find out which process [name] is listening on a port on Windows?

Peter Mortensen 29k 21 21 gold badges 97 97 silver badges bronze badges. Dane Dane 8, 5 5 gold badges 26 26 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. This is according to me the best option, especially since all processes are in the same list and you can close processes directly by right-clicking them.

Also, this doesn't require admin privelges! I love TCPView. It has been my Go-To since windows XP! Add a comment. Find the pid of the process running in the port number e. Jaywalker 2, 3 3 gold badges 28 28 silver badges 42 42 bronze badges. Ram Sharma Ram Sharma 2, 1 1 gold badge 6 6 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. Nathan24 Nathan24 1, 11 11 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. You need to add a space after the find criteria. Replace "port" above with your port, ex "" — jbooker.

I still get that error with PS 5. Do you know what's happening? Find the Port that you are listening on under "Local Address" Look at the process name directly under that.

Open Windows Task Manager. Select the Processes tab. Look for the PID you noted when you did the netstat in step 1. Select PID. Cyborg Cyborg 1, 12 12 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. Good answer, but you should change it to findstr if not,you would even find apps what contain the number e. First we find the process id of that particular task which we need to eliminate in order to get the port free: Type netstat -n -a -o After executing this command in the Windows command line prompt cmd , select the pid which I think the last column.

Here, for example, you can see that port is tied up by a process named picpick. PicPick is an image editor on our system, so we can assume the port is actually tied up by the process that regularly checks for updates to the app. Type the following text at the Command Prompt, and then hit Enter:.

Go ahead and download the tool. Just make sure you get the right version the regular version is for bit Windows and the x64 version is for bit Windows.

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Browse All Privacy and Security Articles Browse All Linux Articles Browse All Buying Guides. Best iPhone 13 Pro Case. Best Bluetooth Headphones for Switch. The netstat command shows the services listening to ports on a Linux server and the details of any connections currently made to them. You need to run netstat on the server that is running the service. Netstat is not affected by your firewall configuration.

Note: You can also use the lsof and ss commands to check ports. Many of the command flags contained in this article are the same when you run the lsof and ss commands. However, the output returned when you use these commands might not resemble the output of the netstat tool.