diff --git a/src/vectorflow/neuralnet.d b/src/vectorflow/neuralnet.d
index 03f1e01..0e761ed 100644
--- a/src/vectorflow/neuralnet.d
+++ b/src/vectorflow/neuralnet.d
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ class NeuralNet {
 
         if(!_ever_initialized)
         {
-            writeln("Net not initialized. Initializing all weights to 0.");
+            version(VectorflowPrint) writeln("Net not initialized. Initializing all weights to 0.");
             initialize(0.0);
         }
         {
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ class NeuralNet {
 
         auto cores_str = (
                 num_cores == 1 ? "1 core." : "%d cores.".format(num_cores));
-        writeln("Training net with ", num_params, " parameters on ", cores_str);
+        version(VectorflowPrint) writeln("Training net with ", num_params, " parameters on ", cores_str);
         foreach(l; layers)
             l.pre_learning();
         opt.learn(this, data, grad_f, verbose, num_cores);
@@ -597,12 +597,12 @@ class NeuralNet {
             f.close();
             try
             {
-                writeln("Serialization failed.");
+                version(VectorflowPrint) writeln("Serialization failed.");
                 remove(path);
             }
             catch(FileException e)
             {
-                writeln("Couldn't cleanup `", path,
+                version(VectorflowPrint) writeln("Couldn't cleanup `", path,
                         "` after serialization failure: ", e);
             }
         }
diff --git a/src/vectorflow/serde.d b/src/vectorflow/serde.d
index 66c238f..3cfa021 100644
--- a/src/vectorflow/serde.d
+++ b/src/vectorflow/serde.d
@@ -52,14 +52,32 @@ class Serializer {
     final T read(T)() if(isSomeString!T || isBasicType!T || isUnsigned!T)
     {
         scope(failure){ if(_f.eof) throw new EOFException("");}
-        scope(exit){ if(_f.eof) throw new EOFException("");}
+        version(Windows){} // Windows requires special treatment with EOF
+        else scope(exit){ if(_f.eof) throw new EOFException(""); }
         static if(isSomeString!T)
         {
-            ulong str_sz;
-            _f.rawRead((&str_sz)[0..1]);
-            auto str = new ubyte[str_sz.to!size_t];
-            str = _f.rawRead(str);
-            return cast(string)str;
+            // On Windows EOF is not set before you try to read past the end, so it requires some special handling
+            // Original code was causing runtime crashes rendering deserialization impossible.
+            // If we use more low level approach and manually throw EOFException if we can't read elemnts it works.
+            version(Windows)
+            {
+                import core.stdc.stdio : fread;
+                ulong str_sz;
+                auto sz = fread(&str_sz, str_sz.sizeof, 1, _f.getFP);
+                if(sz < 1) throw new EOFException("");
+                auto str = new ubyte[str_sz.to!size_t];
+                sz = fread(str.ptr, ubyte.sizeof, str_sz, _f.getFP);
+                if(sz < str_sz) throw new EOFException("");
+                return cast(string)str;
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                ulong str_sz;
+                _f.rawRead((&str_sz)[0..1]);
+                auto str = new ubyte[str_sz.to!size_t];
+                str = _f.rawRead(str);
+                return cast(string)str;
+            }
         }
         else
         {
@@ -99,7 +117,7 @@ class Serializer {
             auto l = Object.factory(layer_type).to!NeuralLayer;
             l.deser(this);
             layers ~= l;
-            writeln("Deserialized ", l.to!string);
+            version(VectorflowPrint) writeln("Deserialized ", l.to!string);
         }
 
         return layers;
diff --git a/test/common.d b/test/common.d
index 0b9de3f..6f149ea 100644
--- a/test/common.d
+++ b/test/common.d
@@ -107,12 +107,12 @@ version(unittest)
                 }
             }
         }
-        writeln("----------");
+       version(VectorflowPrint)  writeln("----------");
         if(failed > 0)
         {
-            writefln("At least %d test(s) failed.", failed);
+            version(VectorflowPrint) writefln("At least %d test(s) failed.", failed);
             foreach(m; retro(messages))
-                writeln(m);
+                version(VectorflowPrint) writeln(m);
         }
         return failed == 0;
     }