How do I kill the process currently using a port on localhost in Windows

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How can I remove the current process application which is already assigned to a port   For example  localhost 8080

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Here is a script to do it in WSL2 PIDS   cmd exe  c netstat -ano   cmd exe  c findstr   1   awk   print  5    for pid in  PIDS do     cmd exe  c taskkill  PID  pid  F done

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For use in command line   for  f  tokens 5   a in   netstat -aon    find   8080     find  LISTENING    do taskkill  f  pid  a   For use in bat-file   for  f  tokens 5    a in   netstat -aon    find   8080     find  LISTENING    do taskkill  f  pid   a

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Step 1  Open up cmd exe  note  you may need to run it as an administrator  but this isn t always necessary   then run the below command   netstat -ano   findstr   lt PORT gt    Replace  lt PORT gt  with the port number you want  but keep the colon   The area circled in red shows the PID  process identifier   Locate the PID of the process that s using the port you want  Step 2  Next  run the following command   taskkill  PID  lt PID gt   F   No colon this time   Lastly  you can check whether the operation succeeded or not by re-running the command in  quot Step 1 quot   If it was successful you shouldn t see any more search results for that port number

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For Windows users  you can use the CurrPorts tool to kill ports under usage easily

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netstat -ano   findstr  PORT kill PI

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Result for Windows Command Prompt In my case  8080 is the port I want to kill And 18264 is the PID listening on port 8080 So the task you have to kill is the PID for that particular port C  Users Niroshan gt netstat -ano findstr  quot PID  8080 quot   Proto Local Address Foreign Address State PID TCP 0 0 0 0 8080 0 0 0 0 0 LISTENING 18264  taskkill  PID 18264  f

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With Windows 10 default tools    Step one    Open Windows PowerShell as Administrator   Step two    Find PID  ProcessID  for port 8080   netstat -aon   findstr 8080      TCP    0 0 0 0 8080   0 0 0 0 0    LISTEN   77777    Step three    Kill the zombie process   taskkill  f  pid 77777   where  77777  is your PID

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Step 1  same is in accepted answer written by KavinduWije    netstat -ano   findstr  yourPortNumber   Change in Step 2 to  tskill typeyourPIDhere   Note  taskkill is not working in some git bash terminal

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If you are using GitBash  Step one   netstat -ano   findstr  8080   Step two    taskkill  PID typeyourPIDhere  F      F forcefully terminates the process

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One line solution using GitBash    tskill  netstat -ano   grep LISTENING   findstr  8080   sed -r  s   s    s    4       1      Replace 8080 with the port your server is listening to   If you need to use it often  try adding to your    bashrc the function   function killport             tskill  netstat -ano   findstr LISTENING   findstr   1   sed -r  s    s    s    4   d     1        and simply run   killport 8080

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I know that is really old question  but found pretty easy to remember  fast command to kill app that are using port    Requirements  npm 5 2 0  version  npx kill-port 8080   You can also read more about kill-port here  https   www npmjs com package kill-port

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If you re using Windows Terminal then the killing process might be little less tedious  I ve been using windows terminal and kill PID works fine for me to kill processes on the port as the new Windows Terminal supports certain bash commands  For example  kill 13300 So  the complete process will look like this-  Open Windows Terminal Type the following command to show processes running on the port you re looking to kill processes  netstat -ano   findstr  PORT Type following to kill the process  kill PID  For Example  PS C  Users username gt  netstat -ano   findstr  4445   TCP    0 0 0 0 4445           0 0 0 0 0              LISTENING       7368   TCP         4445                   0                 LISTENING       7368 PS C  Users username gt  kill 7368 PS C  Users username gt  netstat -ano   findstr  4445 PS C  Users username gt   See when I typed the first command to list processes on the port it returned empty  That means all processes are killed now  Update  kill is an alias for Stop-Process  Thanks   FSCKur for letting us know

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If you can use PowerShell on Windows you just need   Get-Process -Id  Get-NetTCPConnection -LocalPort  quot 8080 quot   OwningProcess   Stop-Process

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I was running zookeeper on Windows and wasn t able to stop ZooKeeper running at 2181 port using zookeeper-stop sh  so tried this double slash      method to taskkill  It worked       1  netstat -ano   findstr  2181        TCP    0 0 0 0 2181           0 0 0 0 0              LISTENING       8876        TCP         2181                   0                 LISTENING       8876       2 taskkill   PID 8876   F        SUCCESS  The process with PID 8876 has been terminated

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We can avoid this by simple restarting IIS  using the below command   IISRESET

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If you already know the port number  it will probably suffice to send a software termination signal to the process  SIGTERM    kill   lsof -t -i  PORT NUMBER

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In Windows PowerShell version 1 or later to stop a process on port 3000 type      Stop-Process    netstat -ano   findstr  3000  split     foreach      length-1    -Force     As suggested by  morganpdx here s a more PowerShell-ish  better version      Stop-Process -Id  Get-NetTCPConnection -LocalPort 3000  OwningProcess -Force

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You can do by run a bat file    ECHO OFF                                                                               FOR  F  tokens 5    T IN   netstat -a -n -o    findstr  9797     DO   SET  A ProcessId   T   amp GOTO SkipLine                                                     SkipLine                                                                               echo ProcessId to kill    ProcessId  taskkill  f  pid  ProcessId  PAUSE

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the first step netstat -vanp tcp   grep 8888  example tcp4     0      0    127 0 0 1 8888          LISTEN      131072 131072  76061    0 tcp46    0      0      8888                  LISTEN      131072 131072  50523    0  the second step  find your PIDs and kill them in my case sudo kill -9 76061 50523

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In case you want to do it using Python  check Is it possible in python to kill process that is listening on specific port  for example 8080   The answer from Smunk works nicely  I repeat his code here   from psutil import process iter from signal import SIGTERM   or SIGKILL  for proc in process iter        for conns in proc connections kind  inet            if conns laddr port    8080              proc send signal SIGTERM    or SIGKILL             continue

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