diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -723,6 +723,7 @@ known issues:
 * winxp cannot show unicode characters outside of *some range*
   * latin-1 is fine, hiragana is not (not even as shift-jis on japanese xp)
 * win7 cannot access servers which require authentication unless you use https or [enable basic authentication](./contrib/webdav-basicauth.reg) for http
+* win7 has a bug where it doesn't actually send the password to the server, so please type your password into the username field
 
 
 ## file indexing
diff --git a/contrib/README.md b/contrib/README.md
index b1297d6b..a580069f 100644
--- a/contrib/README.md
+++ b/contrib/README.md
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ however if your copyparty is behind a reverse-proxy, you may want to use [`share
 ### [`webdav-basicauth.reg`](webdav-basicauth.reg)
 * enables webdav basic-auth over plaintext http
 
+### [`webdav-unlimit.bat`](webdav-unlimit.bat)
+* removes the 47.6 MiB filesize limit when downloading from webdav
+
 ### [`cfssl.sh`](cfssl.sh)
 * creates CA and server certificates using cfssl
 * give a 3rd argument to install it to your copyparty config
diff --git a/contrib/webdav-basicauth.reg b/contrib/webdav-basicauth.reg
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diff --git a/contrib/webdav-unlimit.bat b/contrib/webdav-unlimit.bat
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7960467d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/webdav-unlimit.bat
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+@echo off
+rem removes the 47.6 MiB filesize limit when downloading from webdav
+
+at > nul
+if %errorlevel% neq 0 (
+    echo you must run this as admin
+    pause
+    exit /b 1
+)
+
+reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\WebClient\Parameters /v FileSizeLimitInBytes /t REG_DWORD /d 0xffffffff /f
+reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WebClient\Parameters /v FsCtlRequestTimeoutInSec  /t REG_DWORD /d 0xffffffff /f
+net stop WEBCLIENT
+net start WEBCLIENT
+pause