How Do I Kill the Process Currently Using a Port on Localhost in Windows? [Closed]

I know that is really old question, but found pretty easy to remember, fast command to kill apps that are using port.

Requirements: npm@5.2.0^ version

npx kill-port 8080

You can also read more about kill-port here:

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

There are two ways to kill the processes

Option 01 - Simplest and easiest

Requirement : npm@5.2.0^ version

Open the Command prompt as Administrator and give the following command with the port (Here the port is 8080)

npx kill-port 8080

Option 02 - Most commonly used

• Step 01

  Open Windows command prompt as Administrator

• Step 02

  Find the PID of the port you want to kill with the below command: Here port is 8080

netstat -ano|findstr "PID :8080"

TCP 0.0.0.0:8080 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 18264

• Step 03

  Kill the PID you received above with the below command (In my case PID is 18264)

taskkill /PID 18264 /f

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

If you are using GitBash

Step one:

netstat -ano | findstr :8080

Step two:

taskkill /PID typeyourPIDhere /F 

(/F forcefully terminates the process)

The simplest solution — the only one I can ever remember:

In Windows Powershell

Say we want to stop a process on port 8080

1. Get the process:

netstat -ano | findstr :8080

2. Stop the process

stop-process 82932

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)

Simple CMD is working me. Easy to remember

find the port number which you want kill and run the below cmd

npx kill-port 8080

After complete the Port get stopped and getting this message

npx: installed 3 in 13.796s
Process on port 8080 killed

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

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

Open command prompt and issue below command

netstat -ano|findstr "PID :8888"

Output will show the process id occupying the port

Issue below command to kill the PID

taskkill /pid 8912 /f

You will receive the output as below

SUCCESS: The process with PID 8860 has been terminated.

If you can use PowerShell on Windows you just need :

Get-Process -Id (Get-NetTCPConnection -LocalPort "8080").OwningProcess | Stop-Process

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

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.

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> 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> kill 7368
PS C:\Users\username> netstat -ano | findstr :4445
PS C:\Users\username>

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.

Let's Automate!

If you fall into this issue much often like me, make an .bat file and run it to end process.