help, help, help!!!

A support request that consists only of "help, help, help!!!" isn't very specific. In fact, its the sorta request that usually gets ignored. But, the folks around here are pretty nice, and everybody was a newbie once,

So, mebbe we can getchya pointed in the right direction. First, though, it'd be real helpful to know where you're at, where ya wanna go, and what you figure you'll accomplish by gettin' there. So, if ya don't mind, couldya help us out a little here?


1) What operating system are you runnin' on your 'puter?

2) What type of "current running connections" are you interested in trackin' down?

3) Why?

NT/2000: netstat -an

XP/2003: netstat -ano

OK. I think I understand what you're tryin' to do. Is this what you're lookin' for?

Start > Run, type "command" without the quotes, click "Run". You should get a command box -white-on-black text and you should see something like
Change to the root directory by typing "cd C:\" , again without the quotes, and hit Enter.
You should then be at the "C Prompt", which should look like C:\>

Type "netstat", without the quotes, a space, and whatever parameter or parametrs you wanna see, then hit "Enter"

Here's a list of netstat command parameters

and here's Another

When you're done runnin' DOS commands, just type "exit" without the quotes and hit "Enter"

Oh, and Here's a nifty free app that pretty much does it all automatically.