diff --git a/test/cli/daemon.js b/test/cli/daemon.js
index fe43944f59..dc50c0baaf 100644
--- a/test/cli/daemon.js
+++ b/test/cli/daemon.js
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ describe('daemon', () => {
 
   afterEach(() => clean(repoPath))
 
-  it('do not crash if Addresses.Swarm is empty', function (done) {
+  skipOnWindows('do not crash if Addresses.Swarm is empty', function (done) {
     this.timeout(100 * 1000)
 
     ipfs('init').then(() => {