Thursday, August 5, 2010

Quickly Find Local Open Ports

While looking for a way to determine what communication ports are in use for your system, I came across the following article.

Typing the following command into the Windows Command Prompt will allow you to see the open ports, as well as the ID of the process using that port:

netstat -ao |find /i "listening"

And to see what process each process ID belongs to, you only need to a little tinkering with the Windows Task Manager settings: