[{"_1":2,"_40":-5,"_41":-5},"loaderData",{"_3":4},"routes/__layout/tag.$name",{"_5":6,"_7":8},"tagName","troubleshooting","posts",[9,30],{"_10":11,"_12":13,"_14":15,"_16":17,"_18":19,"_20":21,"_22":23,"_24":25,"_26":27,"_28":29},"id",627,"title","Very geeky question","excerpt","Something was binding to port 80 on my Windows XP machine. Skype was the culprit. TCPview from SysInternals was the tool that identified it. My blog is better than Google.","body","\r\n\r\n

Something on my computer is binding to port 80. Short of manually turning on and off every process on my computer, how do I find out what process is binding to what port? (Windows XP, SP1)\r\n\r\n

Update: Thanks for your responses (mainly via MSN). It turns out it was Skype, the pesky thing, but at least it wasn't some sinister spyware. Thanks to Steve (he's a fan of uber-minimalist web design) for the pointer to the thoroughly useful TCPview, which was exactly the tool for the job. SysInternals seem to do a lot of other useful stuff, too.\r\n\r\n

I love my blog. I could've gone looking for that answer, or just sat here until somebody popped along and answered it for me.","updated",["D",1122308097000],"created",["D",1122308097000],"codename","very_geeky_question","legacy_id","3293","published",["D",1122308097000],"draft",false,{"_10":31,"_12":32,"_14":33,"_16":34,"_18":35,"_20":36,"_22":37,"_24":38,"_26":39,"_28":29},391,"Freedom2Surf customers","Spent way too long figuring out that freedom2surf broadband requires a dial-up connection with the number **0,38** (yes, with a comma). Their website is useless. Save yourself hours of misery and just use those two facts.","\r\n\r\n

If you happen to be a customer of freedom2surf, a reasonably priced, medium-sized broadband ISP in the UK, then you may, upon trying to set up your connection, encountered some difficulties. Two important things they don't tell you are:\r\n\r\n

You need to set up a dial-up connection, not any kind of broad-band connection. Yes, I know it's broadband, but that's not how it works. Don't spend 30 minutes working this out.\r\n
Once you've worked out that it's a dial-up connection, it will ask you for a number. \"But it's broadband!\" I hear you cry, \"there is no number to dial!\"
\r\nYes there is. That number is 0,38 including the bloody comma. Don't spend 2 and 1/2 hours working that out. Wasting that much time finding out something that should be fucking written down somewhere on their fucking website might get you seriously fucking annoyed if that were the case.\r\n

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Much thanks to the good people of freedom2support.net (why can't companies ever make help sites worth half a damn? Why are community sites so much better?) And in particular this thread which, over torturously slow dial-up, eventually answered my question.\r\n\r\n

(How did I get the dial-up number? By Googling for it from my mobile phone, of course. Honestly, it was like firing an arrow with a thread to lift a rope to lift a chain. Nightmare.)",["D",1090254258000],["D",1090254258000],"freedom2surf_customers","3035",["D",1090254258000],"actionData","errors"]

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