diff --git a/.appveyor.yml b/.appveyor.yml
index 6da043859..7445af458 100644
--- a/.appveyor.yml
+++ b/.appveyor.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ branches:
 
 environment:
   GOPATH: C:\gopath
-  CGO_ENABLED: 1
+  CGO_ENABLED: 0
   matrix:
     - GO_VERSION: 1.13.6
 
@@ -51,13 +51,14 @@ build_script:
         mingw32-make.exe check"
   - bash.exe -elc "export PATH=/c/tools/mingw64/bin:$PATH ; mingw32-make.exe build binaries"
 
+# These scripts run with CGO_ENABLED=1 in order to support the Race Detector (-race flag), enabled in Makefile.windows
 test_script:
   # TODO: need an equivalent of TRAVIS_COMMIT_RANGE
   # - GIT_CHECK_EXCLUDE="./vendor" TRAVIS_COMMIT_RANGE="${TRAVIS_COMMIT_RANGE/.../..}" C:\MinGW\bin\mingw32-make.exe dco
-  - bash.exe -lc "export PATH=/c/tools/mingw64/bin:/c/gopath/src/github.com/containerd/containerd/bin:$PATH ; mingw32-make.exe coverage root-coverage"
-  # - bash.exe -elc "export PATH=/c/tools/mingw64/bin:/c/gopath/src/github.com/containerd/containerd/bin:$PATH ; mingw32-make.exe integration"
+  - bash.exe -lc "export CGO_ENABLED=1 PATH=/c/tools/mingw64/bin:/c/gopath/src/github.com/containerd/containerd/bin:$PATH ; mingw32-make.exe coverage root-coverage"
+  # - bash.exe -elc "export CGO_ENABLED=1 PATH=/c/tools/mingw64/bin:/c/gopath/src/github.com/containerd/containerd/bin:$PATH ; mingw32-make.exe integration"
   # Run the integration suite a second time. See discussion in github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/1759
-  # - bash.exe -elc "export PATH=/c/tools/mingw64/bin:/c/gopath/src/github.com/containerd/containerd/bin:$PATH; TESTFLAGS_PARALLEL=1 mingw32-make.exe integration"
+  # - bash.exe -elc "export CGO_ENABLED=1 PATH=/c/tools/mingw64/bin:/c/gopath/src/github.com/containerd/containerd/bin:$PATH; TESTFLAGS_PARALLEL=1 mingw32-make.exe integration"
 
 on_success:
   codecov --flag windows -f coverage.txt