diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 862bfaf..9a6b7dd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ normal GCC/binutils based MinGW.
   everything that GNU windres does.
 - The toolchain defaults to using the Universal CRT (which is only available
   out of the box since Windows 10, but can be installed on Vista or newer)
-  and defaults to targeting Vista. These defaults can be changed in
+  and defaults to targeting Windows 7. These defaults can be changed in
   `build-mingw-w64.sh` though.
 - The toolchain uses Windows native TLS support, which doesn't work properly
   until Windows Vista. This has no effect on code not using thread local
diff --git a/build-mingw-w64.sh b/build-mingw-w64.sh
index aa3b9e3..51826c2 100755
--- a/build-mingw-w64.sh
+++ b/build-mingw-w64.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 set -e
 
-DEFAULT_WIN32_WINNT=0x600
+DEFAULT_WIN32_WINNT=0x601
 DEFAULT_MSVCRT=ucrt
 unset HOST
 
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
     shift
 done
 if [ -z "$PREFIX" ]; then
-    echo $0 [--skip-include-triplet-prefix] [--with-default-win32-winnt=0x600] [--with-default-msvcrt=ucrt] dest
+    echo $0 [--skip-include-triplet-prefix] [--with-default-win32-winnt=0x601] [--with-default-msvcrt=ucrt] dest
     exit 1
 fi