diff --git a/bashrc b/bashrc
index 5826119..4a9b428 100755
--- a/bashrc
+++ b/bashrc
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ export VISUAL="$EDITOR"
 export GIT_PAGER="$PAGER"
 export GIT_EDITOR="$EDITOR"
 
-null type stty && {
+! iswindows && null type stty && {
     stty stop undef        # unbind C-s to stop displaying output
     # stty erase '^h'
 }
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ fi
 
 #######################
 
+iswindows && alias tty="echo cmd.exe"
 uname -a
 echo TERM $TERM connected to $(tty), running $BASH $BASH_VERSION
 echo
diff --git a/profile b/profile
index f581fba..6039f9c 100755
--- a/profile
+++ b/profile
@@ -22,12 +22,11 @@ test -f "${HOME}/.pythonrc" && export PYTHONSTARTUP="${HOME}/.pythonrc"
 __add_to_path(){
     for p in "$@"
     do
-        echo $PATH | grep -E "^$p:|:$p:|:$p$" >/dev/null 2>&1 || PATH="$p:${PATH}"
+        echo $PATH | grep -E "^$p:|:$p:|:$p$" >/dev/null 2>&1 || PATH="${PATH}:$p"
     done
 }
 # export PATH="${PATH}:${HOME}/bin"
-__add_to_path ${HOME}/bin
-#PATH="/c/mingw/bin/:$PATH:/c/mingw/msys/1.0/bin/"
+__add_to_path ${HOME}/bin /c/mingw/bin /c/mingw/msys/1.0/bin
 
 type setterm >/dev/null 2>&1 && setterm -blank 30 -powersave on # -powerdown 10
 # in my environment powerdown does not work