How to release the port used by a terminated process

Asked Aug 20 '18 at 12:41

Active Aug 22 '18 at 02:24

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I have a service that was running on port 8080. I restarted the said service and when it started again, it was already giving an error that the port was being used.

I then tried Process Hacker 2, TCPView and CurrPorts to find the process using the port and terminate it but unfortunately, I cannot find it.

I then have to restart the whole hardware/machine just to free up the port which is not preferable. And if I restart the service again, I have to restart the whole system... again.

I'm using Windows Server 2012 R2. The service was started by PM2.

So how do I release this port that is being used but is not really being used?

Note: This issue only started a few days ago, before that everything was OK. (right after a windows update)

edited Aug 22 '18 at 02:24

asked Aug 20 '18 at 12:41

majidarif

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Windows Update problem https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51666952/address-bind-exception-in-tomcat – focusardi Aug 21 '18 at 02:35
@focusardi that would make sense, I did notice a **Windows Update** right before the issue started. – majidarif Aug 22 '18 at 02:07

How to release the port used by a terminated process

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