Stop http.sys from listening on port 80 in Windows
Info from this URL: https://www.mikeplate.com/2011/11/06/stop-http-sys-from-listening-on-port-80-in-windows/ Stop http.sys from listening on port 80 in Windows On Windows 7 there is a system service called http.sys that listens on port 80. That makes it impossible to run applications and services that haven't been integrated with this feature to also listen on port 80, like Apache HTTP Server or Nginx. Here is one way to solve that problem. Background information First of all, the way http.sys works on newer Windows versions is a very useful feature. The reason behind http.sys is to have a single system service that listens on the all-important port 80 and be a mediator to different applications and services in the system that might like to handle incoming requests on port 80 but for different urls. What an integrated Windows application does, is use a Windows API for registering its own urls and then have them directed to itself. At the same time, there can be...