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October 22, 2011, 10:20:36 PM |
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If you can't bind to port 8333 it means that some program on your computer is currently running in that spot (only one program can use a port at a time).
As 8333 is a rather large and rare number with no obvious uses other than BitCoin, I would say that there is a bitcoin.exe program currently running on your machine.
Can you check your system tray (in the lower right hand corner)? Minimized BitCoin clients don't normally show as a running application, they do show up as a gold coin in the tray though.
Check Task Manager (the "processes" tab) for bitcoin.exe? Or more than one? (since you managed to launch a second one with the no-bind option)
The "netstat" command that someone gave earlier is a good way to list all the networking programs currently running on your system, although the command they listed doesn't work on windows machines. This may be a little too much of "lifting up the hood of your computer", but if you drop to cmd prompt (you may need to search for it in start menu, right-click the icon, and say "run as administrator"), and then run the command "netstat -a -b -p tcp" (without the quotes), then you will get a big dump of everything your computer is doing on the internet. It's a long list, but you are looking for a code ending in ":8333" on the left (in the second column) and on the next line (in brackets) is the name of the exe (that you should be able to find on the "Processes" tab of Task Manager)
As for just leaving this alone and potentially running two copies of BitCoin on the same machine (at least until you reboot)... I'm not sure how it would work. I don't see how two clients could access the same bitcoin wallet at the same time. So umm I'm not exactly sure what's going on in your computer, at least if it looks like it's still all working for you.
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