diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 87e806dab7c8bbf3739e4512b20b6a1a92880f78..e8bbb17097778630d73d421f95523ef781c028aa 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Redis on Windows 2.6 prototype
 - For the 64 bit version, there is a limit of 2^32 objects in a structure, and a max length of 2^32 for any object
 - Version number now 2.6.8-pre2 to indicate prerelease and to enable changing
 - Version 2.6.8-pre2 fixes several failures that existed in 2.6.8-pre1. Most of these were related to handling opening and closing of non-blocking sockets.
+- The unit/protocol desync test is updated to use nonblocking socket and now works on Windows
 
 ##Acknowledgements
 Special thanks to Dušan Majkic (https://github.com/dmajkic, https://github.com/dmajkic/redis/) for his project on GitHub that gave us the opportunity to quickly learn some on the intricacies of Redis code. His project also helped us to build our prototype quickly.
@@ -50,5 +51,4 @@ To run the Redis test suite requires some manual work:
 If a Unix shell is not installed you may see the following error message: "couldn't execute "cat": no such file or directory".
 
 ## Known issues
-The are 3 consistent failures in the protocol module, having to do with receiving an error message when the client connection is closed due to bad data. These tests are disabled for now.
-
+None.
diff --git a/tests/unit/protocol.tcl b/tests/unit/protocol.tcl
index 2dcc3559a055ff4311e83687cba478577bc61a29..b0603d513eaa7849c1889f5cd52d370e9edfa991 100644
--- a/tests/unit/protocol.tcl
+++ b/tests/unit/protocol.tcl
@@ -60,14 +60,13 @@ start_server {tags {"protocol"}} {
         assert_error "*wrong*arguments*ping*" {r ping x y z}
     }
 
-if { 0 == 1 } {
-    # not run in windows
     set c 0
     foreach seq [list "\x00" "*\x00" "$\x00"] {
         incr c
-        after 10000
         test "Protocol desync regression test #$c" {
             set s [socket [srv 0 host] [srv 0 port]]
+            # windows - set nonblocking
+            fconfigure $s -blocking false
             puts -nonewline $s $seq
             set payload [string repeat A 1024]"\n"
             set test_start [clock seconds]
@@ -78,10 +77,13 @@ if { 0 == 1 } {
                     flush $s
                     incr payload_size [string length $payload]
                 }]} {
-                    set retval [gets $s]
+                    #windows - don't read after reset
+                    #set retval [gets $s]
                     close $s
                     break
                 } else {
+                    #windows - if data available, read line
+                    if {[read $s 1] ne ""} { set retval [gets $s] }
                     set elapsed [expr {[clock seconds]-$test_start}]
                     if {$elapsed > $test_time_limit} {
                         close $s
@@ -93,7 +95,6 @@ if { 0 == 1 } {
         } {*Protocol error*}
     }
     unset c
-    }
 }
 
 start_server {tags {"regression"}} {