Port 80 is being used by SYSTEM (PID 4), what is that?

There are many services, which can listen port 80 on windows.

Luckily you can detect and stop them all running simple console command:

NET stop HTTP

When you’ll start it, you will get list first:
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To avoid this problem in future go to Local Services and disable listed services.

N.B. – Some services will restart themselves immediately, just run ‘NET stop HTTP’ few times.

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