diff --git a/config/dmsDefaults.php b/config/dmsDefaults.php
index ccdb51b..7ce635b 100644
--- a/config/dmsDefaults.php
+++ b/config/dmsDefaults.php
@@ -42,7 +42,11 @@ unset($microtime_simple);
 
 // If not defined, set KT_DIR based on my usual location in the tree
 if (!defined('KT_DIR')) {
-    define('KT_DIR', realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/..'));
+    $rootLoc = realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/..');
+    if (OS_WINDOWS) {
+            $rootLoc = str_replace('\\','/',$rootLoc);    
+    }
+    define('KT_DIR', $rootLoc);
 }
 
 if (!defined('KT_LIB_DIR')) {
@@ -380,7 +384,7 @@ class KTInit {
             }
         } else {
             $oKTConfig =& KTConfig::getSingleton();
-            
+
             $oKTConfig->setdefaultns("KnowledgeTree", "fileSystemRoot", KT_DIR);
             $oKTConfig->setdefaultns("KnowledgeTree", "serverName", KTUtil::arrayGet($_SERVER, 'HTTP_HOST', 'localhost'));
             $oKTConfig->setdefaultns("KnowledgeTree", "sslEnabled", false);
diff --git a/lib/storage/ondiskhashedstoragemanager.inc.php b/lib/storage/ondiskhashedstoragemanager.inc.php
index 5f433f9..00aa182 100644
--- a/lib/storage/ondiskhashedstoragemanager.inc.php
+++ b/lib/storage/ondiskhashedstoragemanager.inc.php
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ class KTOnDiskHashedStorageManager extends KTStorageManager {
         //copy the file accross
         $start_time = KTUtil::getBenchmarkTime();
         $file_size = $oDocument->getFileSize();
+        if (OS_WINDOWS) {
+            $sDocumentFileSystemPath = str_replace('\\','/',$sDocumentFileSystemPath);
+        }        
         if ($this->writeToFile($sTmpFilePath, $sDocumentFileSystemPath)) {
             $end_time = KTUtil::getBenchmarkTime();
             global $default;
@@ -64,6 +67,7 @@ class KTOnDiskHashedStorageManager extends KTStorageManager {
 
     function writeToFile($sTmpFilePath, $sDocumentFileSystemPath) {
         // Make it easy to write compressed/encrypted storage
+
         return copy($sTmpFilePath, $sDocumentFileSystemPath);
     }