diff --git a/ciwindows.Dockerfile b/ciwindows.Dockerfile
index 3817878..d8d5bd1 100644
--- a/ciwindows.Dockerfile
+++ b/ciwindows.Dockerfile
@@ -26,24 +26,24 @@ export GOARCH=$TARGETARCH; \
 [[ "$GOARCH" == "arm" ]] && [[ "$TARGETVARIANT" == "v6" ]] && export GOARM=6; \
 [[ "$GOARCH" == "arm" ]] && [[ "$TARGETVARIANT" == "v7" ]] && export GOARM=7; \
 echo $GOARCH $GOOS $GOARM$GOAMD64; \
-go build -ldflags "-s -w -X main.version=${VERSION} -X main.commit=${REVISION} -X main.date=${BUILDTIME}" -o /out/bin/autobrr cmd/autobrr/main.go && \
-go build -ldflags "-s -w -X main.version=${VERSION} -X main.commit=${REVISION} -X main.date=${BUILDTIME}" -o /out/bin/autobrrctl cmd/autobrrctl/main.go
+go build -ldflags "-s -w -X main.version=${VERSION} -X main.commit=${REVISION} -X main.date=${BUILDTIME}" -o /out/bin/autobrr.exe cmd/autobrr/main.go && \
+go build -ldflags "-s -w -X main.version=${VERSION} -X main.commit=${REVISION} -X main.date=${BUILDTIME}" -o /out/bin/autobrrctl.exe cmd/autobrrctl/main.go
 
 # build runner
-FROM mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:ltsc2022 AS runner
+FROM mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:ltsc2019 AS runner
 
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/autobrr/autobrr"
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.licenses="GPL-2.0-or-later"
-LABEL org.opencontainers.image.base.name="mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:ltsc2022"
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.base.name="mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:ltsc2019"
 
-ENV HOME="/config" \
-    XDG_CONFIG_HOME="/config" \
-    XDG_DATA_HOME="/config"
+ENV HOME="C:\config" \
+    XDG_CONFIG_HOME="C:\config" \
+    XDG_DATA_HOME="C:\config"
 
-WORKDIR /app
-VOLUME /config
+WORKDIR "C:\\app"
+VOLUME "C:\\config"
 EXPOSE 7474
 
-COPY --link --from=app-builder /out/bin/autobrr* /
+COPY --from=app-builder /out/bin/autobrr* /
 
-ENTRYPOINT ["/autobrr", "--config", "/config"]
+ENTRYPOINT C:\autobrr.exe --config C:\config
diff --git a/internal/config/config.go b/internal/config/config.go
index b41e298..f59039a 100644
--- a/internal/config/config.go
+++ b/internal/config/config.go
@@ -130,6 +130,15 @@ func (c *AppConfig) writeConfig(configPath string, configFile string) error {
 			// but there's a good chance this is an isolated namespace
 			// or a container.
 			host = "0.0.0.0"
+		} else if user := os.Getenv("USERNAME"); user == "ContainerAdministrator" || user == "ContainerUser" {
+			/* this is the correct code below, but golang helpfully Panics when it can't find netapi32.dll
+			   the issue was first reported 7 years ago, but is fixed in go 1.24 where the below code works.
+			*/
+			/*
+				 u, err := user.Current(); err == nil && u != nil &&
+				(u.Name == "ContainerAdministrator" || u.Name == "ContainerUser") {
+				// Windows conatiners run containers as ContainerAdministrator by default */
+			host = "0.0.0.0"
 		} else if pd, _ := os.Open("/proc/1/cgroup"); pd != nil {
 			defer pd.Close()
 			b := make([]byte, 4096)