ayi <t>Check if you are running BitTorrent/uTorrent or similar software using port 10000. <br/> <br/> Check Steve Marx' blog post about the issue. http://blog.smarx.com/posts/windows-azure-storage-emulator-the-process-cannot-access-the-file-because-it-is-being-used-by-another-process<br/> <br/> In case that post disappears, the command to check if any other software is using that port is:<br/> <br/> C:\Users\smarx>netstat -p tcp -ano | findstr :10000<br/> TCP 127.0.0.1:10000 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 3672<br/> <br/> ```</t>