diff --git a/src/bsk/ipc-client.js b/src/bsk/ipc-client.js
index 92f92c7..78c1877 100644
--- a/src/bsk/ipc-client.js
+++ b/src/bsk/ipc-client.js
@@ -39,9 +39,6 @@ export class BskIpcClient {
 
   async resolveSocket({ isAborted = () => false } = {}) {
     if (this.#sockPath) return this.#sockPath;
-    if (process.platform === "win32") {
-      throw new BskRpcError("unsupported", "Windows named-pipe discovery is not implemented; pass { sockPath: '\\\\\\\\.\\\\pipe\\\\...' } explicitly");
-    }
     const found = readDaemonInfo(this.#home);
     if (found) return found.sock_path;
     if (!this.#autoStart) {
diff --git a/test/fixtures/fake-bsk-daemon.mjs b/test/fixtures/fake-bsk-daemon.mjs
index 4394fe9..68e5eb9 100644
--- a/test/fixtures/fake-bsk-daemon.mjs
+++ b/test/fixtures/fake-bsk-daemon.mjs
@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ import path from "node:path";
 export async function startFakeBskDaemon({ handlers = {}, delayMs = 0 } = {}) {
   const home = mkdtempSync(path.join(tmpdir(), "fake-bsk-home-"));
   mkdirSync(path.join(home, "run"));
-  const sockPath = path.join(home, "run", "daemon.sock");
+  // The real daemon publishes a named pipe on Windows, where a socket file under tmpdir cannot be listened on.
+  const sockPath = process.platform === "win32"
+    ? "\\\\.\\pipe\\" + path.basename(home)
+    : path.join(home, "run", "daemon.sock");
   const requests = [];
   const sockets = new Set();