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

1. 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.