diff --git a/make_windows_releases b/make_windows_releases
index 7266ed23..0518622a 100755
--- a/make_windows_releases
+++ b/make_windows_releases
@@ -18,13 +18,16 @@ make distclean
 make check install
 make distclean
 
-cp -p README-windows-install.txt install-mingw/qpdf*/README.txt
-cp -p README-windows-install.txt install-msvc/qpdf*/README.txt
+cd install-mingw
+v=`ls -d qpdf-*`
+cd ..
+
+cp -p README-windows-install.txt install-mingw/$v/README.txt
+cp -p README-windows-install.txt install-msvc/$v/README.txt
 
 cd install-mingw
-v=qpdf-*
 zip -r ../$v-bin-mingw.zip $v
-cd ../install-msys
+cd ../install-msvc
 zip -r ../$v-bin-msvc.zip $v
 cd ..