diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 97846f8..a66f613 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ This means that it keeps running in the foreground and accepts commands from
 
 You can pass the `--no-interaction` argument to disable this interactive mode
 so that it does not accept any commands from `STDIN`.
+The interactive mode is always disabled on Windows, because it's impossible to
+read from `STDIN` without blocking the whole daemon.
 
 ### Client configuration
 
diff --git a/src/App.php b/src/App.php
index 2ca4e76..9d6d319 100644
--- a/src/App.php
+++ b/src/App.php
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ public function start(array $args)
             'socket' => 'socks://localhost:9050',
             'measureTraffic' => true,
             'measureTime' => true,
-            'interactive' => !isset($args['no-interaction']) && !isset($args['n']) && defined('STDIN') && is_resource(STDIN),
+            'interactive' => DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR === '/' && !isset($args['no-interaction']) && !isset($args['n']) && defined('STDIN') && is_resource(STDIN),
         );
 
         $settings = $this->parseSocksSocket($args['socket']);