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unbind port in Windows 7 after server crash

Hi Experts,
I've tried just about everything to unbind a port - I need to restart the machine after the server fails because when I do a "netstat -ano", I see that the process ID belongs to "system" and there's no way to kill the process with the process ID given on the command line- it doesn't even exist in task manager.  Does anyone know how to make this port available again without restarting?

Thanks a lot,
Mike
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Well, how did you end up opening that port?
I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but you can stop a process with the below command:

TASKKILL /F /PID processid

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That should also open the port up.
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Awesome, thanks Sara!
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Task kill did not work by the way...  would work if run as admin though.