>>Hi everybody,
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>>We have a local service written in C++ which listenes on some ports (which we can configure). In my case I usually can not get the service to listen and the only solution I found so far is to re-boot, start that local service and then open my applications as usual.
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>>This is of course a bad workaround and I'd rather know which application is interfering so I can close that application if needed.
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>>So, my question is - how can I know what ports are used by which applications and what ports are free?
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>>Thanks in advance.
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>http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx

I see this error message in our application:

Unable to listen on port 14203

However, I don't see this port listed by this utility.

I am wondering - if there is a way to close Google Chrome, but re-open it with all my windows again?