How to kill the process currently using a port on localhost in windows

We everyone worked on Tomcat server and sometimes we are facing one common issue “java.net.BindException: Address already in use: bind”

How to resolve this? Steps to follow

Step 1

Run command-line as an Administrator. Then run the below mention command.

netstat -ano | findstr : port number

Red colored circled area shows the PID (process identifier)

Step 2

Then you execute this command after identify the PID.

taskkill /PID typeyourPIDhere /F

Run the first command again to check if process is still available or not. You’ll get empty line if process is successfully ended

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