If you’re looking to open ports in Windows 7, you’ll need to know how to do it. Here’s a guide on how to do it in just a few steps:

  1. Open the Start screen and type “cmd” into the search bar.
  2. Type “netstat -a” and hit enter.
  3. The netstat output will show you all of the open ports on your computer. You’ll see something like this: # Port State Protocol Address 1 22 TCP open 3389 Microsoft-IIS/8.0 2 3389 TCP open 6667 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 3 5985 UDP open 8443 Google Chrome/39 4 7777 UDP open 12000 Mozilla Firefox/5.0 5 8888 UDP open 14393 Adobe Photoshop CS5 6 9995 UDP open 17777 Skype/11