diff --git a/Client/Core.py b/Client/Core.py
index 185ce8c..30cf714 100644
--- a/Client/Core.py
+++ b/Client/Core.py
@@ -44,8 +44,20 @@ AppName = "SaraView"
 BundledFontFamily = "Fixedsys Excelsior"
 ActiveFontFamily = BundledFontFamily  # set by ApplyAppearance, read by BuildTheme
 
+IsWindows = sys.platform == "win32"
+
+# Each system's own per-user folders, like SaraSuite's: ~/.config, ~/.cache
+# and ~/.local/share on Linux; %APPDATA% and %LOCALAPPDATA% on Windows.
 Home = Path.home()
-SharedConfigDir = Home / ".config" / "SaraSuite"
+if IsWindows:
+    ConfigHome = Path(os.environ.get("APPDATA") or Home / "AppData" / "Roaming")
+    DataHome = Path(os.environ.get("LOCALAPPDATA") or Home / "AppData" / "Local")
+    CacheHome = DataHome
+else:
+    ConfigHome = Path(os.environ.get("XDG_CONFIG_HOME") or Home / ".config")
+    DataHome = Path(os.environ.get("XDG_DATA_HOME") or Home / ".local" / "share")
+    CacheHome = Path(os.environ.get("XDG_CACHE_HOME") or Home / ".cache")
+SharedConfigDir = ConfigHome / "SaraSuite"
 ThemesDir = SharedConfigDir / "Themes"
 SharedConfigPath = SharedConfigDir / "Config.toml"
 ConfigDir = SharedConfigDir / AppName
@@ -54,8 +66,7 @@ ConfigPath = ConfigDir / "Config.toml"
 # never carries it.
 SessionPath = ConfigDir / "Session.toml"
 # Server files opened in another program are downloaded here first.
-CacheDir = Home / ".cache" / AppName
-DataHome = Home / ".local" / "share"
+CacheDir = CacheHome / AppName / "Cache" if IsWindows else CacheHome / AppName
 
 # Inside a PyInstaller build, bundled files are unpacked to sys._MEIPASS.
 BundleDir = Path(getattr(sys, "_MEIPASS", Path(__file__).resolve().parent))
@@ -307,16 +318,53 @@ def ChildEnvironment() -> dict[str, str]:
             Environment.pop("LD_LIBRARY_PATH", None)
     for Key in ("PYTHONHOME", "PYTHONPATH"):
         Environment.pop(Key, None)
+    if IsWindows:
+        Environment["PYTHONUTF8"] = "1"  # every Sara program reads and writes UTF-8
     return Environment
 
 
 def OpenExternally(FilePath: Path) -> None:
     """Hands a file to the system's default program. Raises OSError."""
+    if IsWindows:
+        os.startfile(str(FilePath))
+        return
     subprocess.Popen(["xdg-open", str(FilePath)], env=ChildEnvironment(), start_new_session=True)
 
 
+def _WindowsFonts() -> set[str]:
+    """Font families from the system and per-user Fonts registry keys
+    ("Arial Bold (TrueType)" -> "Arial")."""
+    import re
+    import winreg
+
+    Families: set[str] = set()
+    Key = r"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts"
+    for Root in (winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER):
+        try:
+            with winreg.OpenKey(Root, Key) as Fonts:
+                Index = 0
+                while True:
+                    try:
+                        Name = winreg.EnumValue(Fonts, Index)[0]
+                    except OSError:
+                        break
+                    Index += 1
+                    Name = re.sub(r"\s*\(.*\)$", "", Name)
+                    Name = re.sub(r"\s+(Bold|Italic|Light|Semibold|SemiBold|Black|Regular|Medium|Thin)\b.*$", "", Name)
+                    if Name and "&" not in Name:
+                        Families.add(Name.strip())
+        except OSError:
+            continue
+    return Families
+
+
 def InstalledFontFamilies() -> list[str]:
-    """Font families fontconfig knows about, with the bundled font first."""
+    """Font families fontconfig (or, on Windows, the registry) knows about,
+    with the bundled font first."""
+    if IsWindows:
+        Families = _WindowsFonts()
+        Families.discard(BundledFontFamily)
+        return [BundledFontFamily] + sorted(Families, key=str.lower)
     try:
         Result = subprocess.run(
             ["fc-list", ":", "family"], capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=5, env=ChildEnvironment(),
@@ -489,9 +537,9 @@ def HumanSize(NumBytes: Optional[int]) -> str:
 
 
 def DisplayPath(PathText: str) -> str:
-    """/home/sarah/Notes -> ~/Notes, for labels."""
+    """/home/sarah/Notes -> ~/Notes, for labels (C:\\Users\\x\\Notes -> ~\\Notes)."""
     HomeText = str(Home)
-    if PathText == HomeText or PathText.startswith(HomeText + "/"):
+    if PathText == HomeText or PathText.startswith(HomeText + os.sep):
         return "~" + PathText[len(HomeText):]
     return PathText
 
diff --git a/Client/Main.py b/Client/Main.py
index 8c2e895..733cd46 100644
--- a/Client/Main.py
+++ b/Client/Main.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ the right."""
 
 import os
 import subprocess
+import sys
 from typing import Optional
 
 import flet as ft
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ from Settings import ShowSettingsDialog
 def _SetCursorThemeFallback() -> None:
     """GTK reads XCURSOR_THEME directly and doesn't always inherit it (shows as
     'Unable to load ... from the cursor theme'). Same fix as SaraFem's."""
-    if os.environ.get("XCURSOR_THEME"):
+    if os.environ.get("XCURSOR_THEME") or sys.platform == "win32":  # GTK/GNOME only
         return
     try:
         Result = subprocess.run(["gsettings", "get", "org.gnome.desktop.interface", "cursor-theme"],
@@ -48,6 +49,8 @@ def Main(Page: ft.Page) -> None:
     Page.bgcolor = Palette.Base
     Page.window.width = 1180
     Page.window.height = 760
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        Page.window.icon = str(AssetsDir / "Icon.ico")  # taskbar/title bar (Linux: the desktop entry)
     Page.window.min_width = 720
     Page.window.min_height = 480
 
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index 0000000..073e24b
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