diff --git a/src/win/process-stdio.c b/src/win/process-stdio.c
index 89d9c4d2..bd78f3fa 100644
--- a/src/win/process-stdio.c
+++ b/src/win/process-stdio.c
@@ -215,7 +215,8 @@ int uv__stdio_create(uv_loop_t* loop,
          * handles in the stdio buffer are initialized with.
          * INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE, which should be okay. */
         if (i <= 2) {
-          HANDLE nul;
+          /* Redundantly initialize to make the compiler happy. */
+          HANDLE nul = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
           DWORD access = (i == 0) ? FILE_GENERIC_READ :
                                     FILE_GENERIC_WRITE | FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES;
 
diff --git a/src/win/util.c b/src/win/util.c
index e0dba1aa..98ea9d6d 100644
--- a/src/win/util.c
+++ b/src/win/util.c
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ unsigned int uv_available_parallelism(void) {
   DWORD_PTR procmask;
   DWORD_PTR sysmask;
   int count;
-  int i;
+  unsigned int i;
 
   /* TODO(bnoordhuis) Use GetLogicalProcessorInformationEx() to support systems
    * with > 64 CPUs? See https://github.com/libuv/libuv/pull/3458