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Now who's using my COM port?

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Mar 15, 202613937 views

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I am trying to figure out who's locking my COM port. Tried to search but could not find a way to figure that out. I am using XP. Was wondering if 'Process Explorer' utility provides something for the same but could not find something helping. Is there a command that shows up all the applications ti…

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Yes, in Process Explorer, the application using the port will have a "File" handle called where N is a zero-based index. Update: The "N" in "serialN" is not the COM port number, it's the index into the list of active ports. If you only have one port…

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