diff --git a/examples/C/bufr_copy_data.sh b/examples/C/bufr_copy_data.sh
index 959a71411..31dd3b5c2 100755
--- a/examples/C/bufr_copy_data.sh
+++ b/examples/C/bufr_copy_data.sh
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@
 #Define a common label for all the tmp files
 label="bufr_copy_data_c"
 
+if [ $ECCODES_ON_WINDOWS -eq 1 ]; then
+    echo "$0: This test is currently disabled on Windows"
+    exit 0
+fi
+
 TEMP_BUFR=$label.out.bufr
 TEMP_TEXT=$label.out.txt
 REF=$label.compare.log.ref
diff --git a/examples/C/include.ctest.sh.in b/examples/C/include.ctest.sh.in
index a8550e75d..5dabcb29d 100644
--- a/examples/C/include.ctest.sh.in
+++ b/examples/C/include.ctest.sh.in
@@ -24,3 +24,5 @@ fi
 samp_dir="@CMAKE_BINARY_DIR@/@ECCODES_SAMPLES_SUFF@"
 ECCODES_SAMPLES_PATH=${samp_dir}
 export ECCODES_SAMPLES_PATH
+
+ECCODES_ON_WINDOWS=@ECCODES_ON_WINDOWS@
diff --git a/tests/CMakeLists.txt b/tests/CMakeLists.txt
index ba6a908ee..0ef8b47f0 100644
--- a/tests/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tests/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ endif()
 
 ecbuild_add_test( TARGET eccodes_t_grib_to_netcdf
                   TYPE SCRIPT
-                  CONDITION HAVE_NETCDF AND ENABLE_EXTRA_TESTS
+                  CONDITION HAVE_NETCDF AND ENABLE_EXTRA_TESTS AND NOT ECCODES_ON_WINDOWS
                   COMMAND ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/grib_to_netcdf.sh
                   TEST_DEPENDS eccodes_download_gribs
 )
diff --git a/tests/bufr_compare.sh b/tests/bufr_compare.sh
index e77367961..52859fc89 100755
--- a/tests/bufr_compare.sh
+++ b/tests/bufr_compare.sh
@@ -153,6 +153,11 @@ status=$?
 set -e
 [ $status -eq 1 ]
 
+if [ $ECCODES_ON_WINDOWS -eq 1 ]; then
+    echo "$0: The rest of this test is currently disabled on Windows"
+    exit 0
+fi
+
 #----------------------------------------------------
 # ECC-656: using relative comparison (-R) with 'all'
 #----------------------------------------------------