diff --git a/src/daemon/meson.build b/src/daemon/meson.build
index e19b29077..262e193b2 100644
--- a/src/daemon/meson.build
+++ b/src/daemon/meson.build
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ default_conf = configuration_data()
 default_conf.merge_from(cdata)
 default_conf.set('PA_BINARY', cdata.get_unquoted('PA_BINARY'))
 default_conf.set('PA_SOEXT', cdata.get_unquoted('PA_SOEXT'))
-default_conf.set10('HAVE_AF_UNIX', cc.has_header('sys/un.h'))
+default_conf.set10('HAVE_AF_UNIX', cc.has_header('sys/un.h') ? true : cc.has_header('winsock2.h'))
 default_conf.set10('OS_IS_WIN32', host_machine.system() == 'windows')
 default_conf.set10('HAVE_MKFIFO', cc.has_function('mkfifo'))
 
diff --git a/src/pulsecore/parseaddr.c b/src/pulsecore/parseaddr.c
index b909f5280..c47544f76 100644
--- a/src/pulsecore/parseaddr.c
+++ b/src/pulsecore/parseaddr.c
@@ -105,8 +105,13 @@ int pa_parse_address(const char *name, pa_parsed_address *ret_p) {
     } else
         p = name;
 
+#ifndef OS_IS_WIN32
     if (*p == '/')
         ret_p->type = PA_PARSED_ADDRESS_UNIX;
+#else
+    if (strlen(p) >= 3 && p[1] == ':' && p[2] == '\\' && ((p[0] >= 'A' && p[0] <= 'Z') || (p[0] >= 'a' && p[0] <= 'z')))
+        ret_p->type = PA_PARSED_ADDRESS_UNIX;
+#endif
     else if (pa_startswith(p, "unix:")) {
         ret_p->type = PA_PARSED_ADDRESS_UNIX;
         p += sizeof("unix:")-1;
diff --git a/src/pulsecore/socket-util.c b/src/pulsecore/socket-util.c
index 83d4c9c6c..f2c8c3c31 100644
--- a/src/pulsecore/socket-util.c
+++ b/src/pulsecore/socket-util.c
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ int pa_unix_socket_is_stale(const char *fn) {
         if (errno == ECONNREFUSED)
             ret = 1;
 #else
-        if (WSAGetLastError() == WSAECONNREFUSED)
+        if (WSAGetLastError() == WSAECONNREFUSED || WSAGetLastError() == WSAEINVAL)
             ret = 1;
 #endif
     } else