Check if port is used windows

asked Sep 7, 2008 at 6:26

PowerShell

TCP

Get-Process -Id (Get-NetTCPConnection -LocalPort YourPortNumberHere).OwningProcess

UDP

Get-Process -Id (Get-NetUDPEndpoint -LocalPort YourPortNumberHere).OwningProcess

cmd

 netstat -a -b

(Add -n to stop it trying to resolve hostnames, which will make it a lot faster.)

Note Dane’s recommendation for TCPView. It looks very useful!

-a Displays all connections and listening ports.

-b Displays the executable involved in creating each connection or listening port. In some cases well-known executables host multiple independent components, and in these cases the sequence of components involved in creating the connection or listening port is displayed. In this case the executable name is in [] at the bottom, on top is the component it called, and so forth until TCP/IP was reached. Note that this option can be time-consuming and will fail unless you have sufficient permissions.

-n Displays addresses and port numbers in numerical form.

-o Displays the owning process ID associated with each connection.

There’s a native GUI for Windows:

• Start menu → All Programs → Accessories → System Tools → Resource Monitor

• or run resmon.exe,

• or from TaskManager → Performance tab.

For Windows:

netstat -aon | find /i "listening"

answered Jan 24, 2018 at 3:50

You can get more information if you run the following command:

netstat -aon | find /i "listening" |find "port"

using the ‘Find’ command allows you to filter the results. find /i "listening" will display only ports that are ‘Listening’. Note, you need the /i to ignore case, otherwise you would type find «LISTENING». | find "port" will limit the results to only those containing the specific port number. Note, on this it will also filter in results that have the port number anywhere in the response string.

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Get PID and Image Name

Use only one command:

for /f "tokens=5" %a in ('netstat -aon ^| findstr 9000') do tasklist /FI "PID eq %a"

where 9000 should be replaced by your port number.

The output will contain something like this:

Image Name                     PID Session Name        Session#    Mem Usage
========================= ======== ================ =========== ============
java.exe                      5312 Services                   0    130,768 K

Explanation:

• it iterates through every line from the output of the following command:

  netstat -aon | findstr 9000
  

• from every line, the PID (%a — the name is not important here) is extracted (PID is the 5^th element in that line) and passed to the following command

  tasklist /FI "PID eq 5312"
  

If you want to skip the header and the return of the command prompt, you can use:

echo off & (for /f "tokens=5" %a in ('netstat -aon ^| findstr 9000') do tasklist /NH /FI "PID eq %a") & echo on

Output:

java.exe                      5312 Services                   0    130,768 K

answered Feb 10, 2016 at 10:17

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. Suppose this is 3312.

Now type

taskkill /F /PID 3312

You can now cross check by typing the netstat command.

NOTE: sometimes Windows doesn’t allow you to run this command directly on CMD, so first you need to go with these steps:

From the start menu -> command prompt (right click on command prompt, and run as administrator)

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To get a list of all the owning process IDs associated with each connection:

netstat -ao |find /i "listening"

If want to kill any process have the ID and use this command, so that port becomes free

Taskkill /F /IM PID of a process

It is very simple to get the port number from a PID in Windows.

The following are the steps:

1. Go to run → type cmd → press Enter.

2. Write the following command…

   netstat -aon | findstr [port number]
   

   (Note: Don’t include square brackets.)

3. Press Enter…

4. Then cmd will give you the detail of the service running on that port along with the PID.

5. Open Task Manager and hit the service tab and match the PID with that of the cmd, and that’s it.

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To find out which specific process (PID) is using which port:

netstat -anon | findstr 1234

Where 1234 is the PID of your process. [Go to Task Manager → Services/Processes tab to find out the PID of your application.]

In case someone need an equivalent for macOS like I did, here is it:

lsof -i tcp:8080

After you get the PID of the process, you can kill it with:

kill -9 <PID>

answered Aug 12, 2020 at 11:22

Just open a command shell and type (saying your port is 123456):

netstat -a -n -o | find "123456"

You will see everything you need.

The headers are:

 Proto  Local Address          Foreign Address        State           PID
 TCP    0.0.0.0:37             0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       1111

This is as mentioned here.

answered Sep 7, 2008 at 6:40

1. Open the command prompt — start → Run → cmd, or start menu → All Programs → Accessories → Command Prompt.

2. Type

   netstat -aon | findstr '[port_number]'
   

Replace the [port_number] with the actual port number that you want to check and hit Enter.

1. If the port is being used by any application, then that application’s detail will be shown. The number, which is shown at the last column of the list, is the PID (process ID) of that application. Make note of this.

2. Type

   tasklist | findstr '[PID]'
   

Replace the [PID] with the number from the above step and hit Enter.

1. You’ll be shown the application name that is using your port number.

answered Feb 27, 2022 at 22:16

answered Sep 23, 2018 at 5:05

answered Nov 22, 2016 at 15:36

netstat -ao and netstat -ab tell you the application, but if you’re not a system administrator you’ll get «The requested operation requires elevation».

It’s not ideal, but if you use Sysinternals’ Process Explorer you can go to specific processes’ properties and look at the TCP tab to see if they’re using the port you’re interested in. It is a bit of a needle and haystack thing, but maybe it’ll help someone…

Using Windows’ default shell (PowerShell) and without external applications

For those using PowerShell, try Get-NetworkStatistics:

> Get-NetworkStatistics | where Localport -eq 8000


ComputerName  : DESKTOP-JL59SC6
Protocol      : TCP
LocalAddress  : 0.0.0.0
LocalPort     : 8000
RemoteAddress : 0.0.0.0
RemotePort    : 0
State         : LISTENING
ProcessName   : node
PID           : 11552

I recommend CurrPorts from NirSoft.

CurrPorts can filter the displayed results. TCPView doesn’t have this feature.

Note: You can right click a process’s socket connection and select «Close Selected TCP Connections» (You can also do this in TCPView). This often fixes connectivity issues I have with Outlook and Lync after I switch VPNs. With CurrPorts, you can also close connections from the command line with the «/close» parameter.

answered Jun 29, 2015 at 22:07

A single-line solution that helps me is this one. Just substitute 3000 with your port:

$P = Get-Process -Id (Get-NetTCPConnection -LocalPort 3000).OwningProcess; Stop-Process $P.Id

Edit: Changed kill to Stop-Process for more PowerShell-like language

answered Feb 3, 2019 at 14:46

answered Aug 13, 2013 at 2:32

To find pid who using port 8000

netstat -aon | findstr '8000'

To Kill that Process in windows

taskkill /pid pid /f

where pid is the process id which you get form first command

answered Jul 14, 2020 at 6:13

answered Nov 24, 2020 at 14:50