how to check available ports?

[rasena]

Hey guys, I’ve a very short question. I recently bought a brand new HP laptop with Vista Home pre-installed. I just wanted to know about available ports on my laptop.

Can anyone here please tell me how can we check for available ports on Vista?

[Wooody]

It should be under Device Manager > Desktop/ports. OR on Windows Vista you can simply make use of PULIST from Windows Resource Kit which will display you the list of process using a specified port.

• To display all open ports, open DOS command, type netstat and press Enter.
• To list all listening ports, use netstat -an |find /i "listening" command.
• To see what ports your computer actually communicates with, use netstat -an |find /i "established"
• To find specified open port, use find switch. For example, to find if the port 3389 is open or not, do netstat -an |find /i "3389".

[Elwin-K]

Can you just tell me for what you need the port? If I guess you want to use Hardware port, then better look for computer's hardware manual. And if you are looking it for network port than there are about 64000 ports and most of them are available, the choice is usually done according to the application that needs the port.