Check what is using a port

On my system, it displays the following output. My Tomcat is up and running on port within Eclipse and I executed the following command. From the output of netstat, findstr will give the lines which have word in it. On my system, I used the following command to check which process belongs to process id On my system, I executed the following command to find first process id of a process with name javaw.

Use of the netstat command with -aon options together with the findstr command to find out which process is using a particular port, and vice versa. Published at DZone with permission of Gaurav Bhardwaj. See the original article here. Have a question or suggestion? Please leave a comment to start the discussion. Please keep in mind that all comments are moderated and your email address will NOT be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

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DavidJesus doesn't show process on windows Show 2 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Tereza Tomcova 4, 2 2 gold badges 28 28 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges. Brad Wilson Brad Wilson You may have to run your command line shell as administrator, otherwise you may get an error message about insufficient privileges.

Use the "Run as administrator" option when right-clicking cmd. Works but requires elevated permission. 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?