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1 min readAug 26, 2020
How to Force Kill a windows process running on port 8080
Following article will show you how to search for a the pid of the process running on port 8080 and force kill the process
- Goto Start and open the command prompt in admin mode. As shown below
2. Run this netstat command to find what service or process is running on port 8080
>netstat -ano | findstr 8080
3. To force kill the process , run the following command with the pid that you got from the netstat command above. In my case pid 6684 is running TCP.
>taskkill /F /pid 6684
Now the port 8080 is free for your application to run.