Anyone know of any user friendly/effective programs to scan and check ports to see whether or not they are open?

Before I can to help you out I need to know, what in the 3 deivls name gave you the idea, that its a good thing to posess the knowledge you seek?
(Also are you talking about local or remote?)

Anyone know of any user friendly/effective programs to scan and check ports to see whether or not they are open?

do you mean for like playing certain games and stuff?

do you mean for like playing certain games and stuff?

No, my router is playing tricks on me again (the bastard) and saying that a port is closed, that I need opened. I just want to use it as a reference, because some of the port scanners I've used to far are out of my league.

And I want a local scanner.

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If I remember right, the command:

netsh firewall show state

Should list open ports on the local machine.