diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index d7e0ab4e..0bd28ad7 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -3,13 +3,6 @@ Soon
 
  * Set up OSS-Fuzz (Google). See starred email in qpdf label.
 
- * Get to the bottom of Windows test fragility. The symptom is that
-   sometimes the output of a command is truncated even though the
-   command ran successfully. I strongly suspect it has to do with
-   TestDriver->winrun and/or use of temporary files in qtest for
-   Windows. If found, remove workarounds. Search for sleep to find
-   them.
-
 Next ABI
 ========
 
diff --git a/examples/qtest/create.test b/examples/qtest/create.test
index ca5fbd23..f18c5fd6 100644
--- a/examples/qtest/create.test
+++ b/examples/qtest/create.test
@@ -11,30 +11,9 @@ cleanup();
 
 my $td = new TestDriver('create');
 
-# This test is fragile on Windows for unknown reasons. Sometimes the
-# output of the command is truncated even though it works and exits
-# normally.
-
-for (my $i = 0; $i < 5; ++$i)
-{
-    unlink "tmp.out";
-    if ((system("pdf-create a.pdf > tmp.out") == 0) &&
-        open(F, "<check.tmpout"))
-    {
-        local $/ = undef;
-        my $text = <F>;
-        close(F);
-        if ($text =~ m/passed/)
-        {
-            last;
-        }
-    }
-    sleep 1;
-}
-
 $td->runtest("create a simple PDF",
-	     {$td->FILE => "tmp.out"},
-	     {$td->FILE => "create.out"},
+	     {$td->COMMAND => "pdf-create a.pdf"},
+	     {$td->FILE => "create.out", $td->EXIT_STATUS => 0},
              $td->NORMALIZE_NEWLINES);
 
 cleanup();
diff --git a/qpdf/qtest/qpdf.test b/qpdf/qtest/qpdf.test
index b21ffcd6..af103201 100644
--- a/qpdf/qtest/qpdf.test
+++ b/qpdf/qtest/qpdf.test
@@ -3724,36 +3724,10 @@ foreach my $file (@files)
 			 {$td->STRING => "",
 			  $td->EXIT_STATUS => 0});
 
-            # This test is fragile on Windows for unknown reasons.
-            # Sometimes the output of qpdf --check is truncated yet
-            # qpdf --check still exits normally. As a workaround, try
-            # writing the output of qpdf --check to a file and test
-            # for truncation. If we get a non-truncated output, use
-            # that output as the test input. If this loop fails to
-            # produce a non-truncated output, the truncated or
-            # otherwise incorrect output will still be used as the
-            # test input, so the test will fail as it should. We lose
-            # a check of qpdf --check's output, but it's not important
-            # for this test to verify that.
-            unlink "check.tmpout";
-            for (my $i = 0; $i < 5; ++$i)
-            {
-                if ((system("qpdf --check a.pdf > check.tmpout") == 0) &&
-                    open(F, "<check.tmpout"))
-                {
-                    local $/ = undef;
-                    my $text = <F>;
-                    close(F);
-                    if ($text =~ m/No syntax or stream/)
-                    {
-                        last;
-                    }
-                }
-                sleep 1;
-            }
 	    $td->runtest("check status",
-			 {$td->FILE => "check.tmpout"},
-			 {$td->FILE => "$base.$n$osuf.check"},
+			 {$td->COMMAND => "qpdf --check a.pdf"},
+			 {$td->FILE => "$base.$n$osuf.check",
+                              $td->EXIT_STATUS => 0},
 			 $td->NORMALIZE_NEWLINES);
 
 	    $td->runtest("check with C API",
diff --git a/qtest/module/TestDriver.pm b/qtest/module/TestDriver.pm
index 7029457e..061d0e26 100644
--- a/qtest/module/TestDriver.pm
+++ b/qtest/module/TestDriver.pm
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ my $color_emph = "";
 # MSWin32 support
 my $in_windows = 0;
 my $winbin = undef;
-if ($^O eq 'MSWin32')
+if (($^O eq 'MSWin32') || ($^O eq 'msys'))
 {
     $in_windows = 1;
 }
@@ -784,6 +784,10 @@ sub runtest
 	    binmode F;
 	    while (<$in>)
 	    {
+                if ($flags & $rep->NORMALIZE_NEWLINES)
+                {
+                    s/\r$//;
+                }
 		print F;
 	    }
 	    $in->close();