diff --git a/src/common/rclconfig.cpp b/src/common/rclconfig.cpp
index fe0578d1..8bb074dc 100644
--- a/src/common/rclconfig.cpp
+++ b/src/common/rclconfig.cpp
@@ -1623,7 +1623,12 @@ string RclConfig::findFilter(const string &icmd) const
     // Prepend $datadir/filters
     temp = path_cat(m_datadir, "filters");
     PATH = temp + path_PATHsep() + PATH;
-
+#ifdef _WIN32
+    // Windows only: use the bundled Python
+    temp = path_cat(m_datadir, "filters");
+    temp = path_cat(temp, "python");
+    PATH = temp + path_PATHsep() + PATH;
+#endif
     // Prepend possible configuration parameter?
     if (getConfParam(string("filtersdir"), temp)) {
         temp = path_tildexpand(temp);
diff --git a/src/windows/mkinstdir.sh b/src/windows/mkinstdir.sh
index 7c835d20..6064d487 100644
--- a/src/windows/mkinstdir.sh
+++ b/src/windows/mkinstdir.sh
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ RCL=c:/recoll/src/
 
 ReleaseBuild=y
 
+PYTHON=c:/recolldeps/python2
 UNRTF=c:/recolldeps/unrtf
 ANTIWORD=c:/recolldeps/antiword
 PYXSLT=C:/recolldeps/pyxslt
@@ -115,7 +116,11 @@ copyzlib()
 {
     chkcp $ZLIB/zlib1.dll $DESTDIR
 }
-
+copypython()
+{
+    cp -rp $PYTHON $DESTDIR/Share/filters
+    chkcp $PYTHON/python.exe $DESTDIR/Share/filters/python/python.exe
+}
 copyrecoll()
 {
 #    bindir=$RCL/windows/$PLATFORM/$CONFIGURATION/
@@ -187,6 +192,10 @@ copyepub()
     # chkcp to check that epub is where we think it is
     chkcp $EPUB/build/lib/epub/opf.py $FILTERS/epub
 }
+
+# We used to copy the future module to the filters dir, but it is now
+# part of the Python installation we copy (2 dirs:
+# site-packages/builtins, site-packages/future)
 copyfuture()
 {
     cp -rp $FUTURE/future $FILTERS/
@@ -255,9 +264,10 @@ copypoppler
 copyantiword
 copyunrtf
 copyxslt
-copyfuture
+#copyfuture
 copymutagen
 copyepub
 copypyexiv2
 copywpd
 copychm
+copypython