diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 0adb1f0..ee9d405 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1260,7 +1260,7 @@ checksum = "6980e8d7511241f8acf4aebddbb1ff938df5eebe98691418c4468d0b72a96a67"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "sthp"
-version = "0.5.0-beta1"
+version = "0.5.0-beta2"
 dependencies = [
  "base64",
  "bytes",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index b08b10c..1dea0e7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "sthp"
-version = "0.5.0-beta1"
+version = "0.5.0-beta2"
 license = "MIT"
 authors = ["Karan Gauswami <karangauswami.dev@gmail.com>"]
 edition = "2021"
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ tracing = "0.1.37"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.17", features = ["env-filter"] }
 hyper-util = { version="0.1.5",features = ["tokio"] }
 base64 = "0.22.1"
+
+[target.'cfg(not(windows))'.dependencies]
 daemonize = "0.5.0"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 7349937..bbba851 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ use std::net::{IpAddr, SocketAddr, ToSocketAddrs};
 
 use base64::engine::general_purpose;
 use base64::Engine;
-use daemonize::Daemonize;
 use hyper::header::HeaderValue;
 use tokio::net::TcpListener;
 
@@ -57,6 +56,7 @@ struct Cli {
     #[arg(long)]
     http_basic: Option<String>,
 
+    #[cfg(not(target_os = "windows"))]
     /// Run process in background
     #[arg(short, long, default_value_t = false)]
     detached: bool,
@@ -88,10 +88,13 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
 
     let listener = TcpListener::bind(addr).await?;
 
-    let daemonize = Daemonize::new();
-    if args.detached {
-        if let Err(e) = daemonize.start() {
-            eprintln!("Error: {}", e);
+    #[cfg(not(target_os = "windows"))]
+    {
+        if args.detached {
+            let daemonize = daemonize::Daemonize::new();
+            if let Err(e) = daemonize.start() {
+                eprintln!("Error: {}", e);
+            }
         }
     }