Ever tried to install EasyPHP or Xammp or even IIS and found trouble. Well I just spent an hour to find that Skype is running on Port 80, which means that Apache couldn’t start.

From Windows XP or Server 2003 you can run a port scan but in Windows 2000 a little utility called Fport will be useful. If you’re using Skype, turn it off and try again.

Otherwise download Fport. It’s a little tricky - it saves itself to a directory called Fport-2.0. Their instructions are actually wrong.

They say to run it from the command prompt c:/>fport, but it’s actually c:/>Fport-2.0/fport

it just depends how you save it I suppose.

Anyway, that little sucker will tell you what’s running on all ports on your computer, and could be pretty handy one day.

Well, a bit technical but pretty cool.