Configuring Windows Dynamic Port Allocation?

Some Windows applications can reserve TCP or UDP ports which may cause some other applications fail to run. These threads provide solutions to this problem,

• Reserving ports in the Windows 10 Dynamic Port Range  on Superuser.com
• Solution for common Docker not starting problem after latest update
• Cannot bind to some ports due to permission denied on StackOverflow.com 

The solution are generally three.

1. Removing/disabling the offending application or Windows feature. For instance, the threads point out Hyper-V is often the culprit because it reserves ports dynamically and unpredictably. We can disable it if we aren't using it,

   
   REM disable Hyper-V
   dism.exe /Online /Disable-Feature:Microsoft-Hyper-V
     

   In PowerShell, do this to remove all Hyper-V adapters,

   
   Get-HNSNetwork | Remove-HNSNetwork
     

2. Reset dynamic port range from which the offending application reserves ports. For instance, for Hyper-V, for instance, we can do this,

   
   dism.exe /Online /Disable-Feature:Microsoft-Hyper-V
   
   netsh int ipv4 add excludedportrange protocol=tcp startport=50051 numberofports=1
   
   dism.exe /Online /Enable-Feature:Microsoft-Hyper-V /All
       

3. Disable dynamic port allocation, i.e.,

   
   reg add HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\hns\State /v EnableExcludedPortRange /d 0 /f