diff --git a/src/config.c b/src/config.c
index 15a3d12d..e65a76fc 100644
--- a/src/config.c
+++ b/src/config.c
@@ -87,8 +87,6 @@ int config_parse_file(const char *filename)
 		return CONFIG_EBADROOT;
 	}
 
-	xmlDocDump(stdout, doc);
-
 	_parse_root(doc, node->xmlChildrenNode);
 
 	xmlFreeDoc(doc);
diff --git a/src/thread/thread.c b/src/thread/thread.c
index 2e1360f5..1e420bf9 100644
--- a/src/thread/thread.c
+++ b/src/thread/thread.c
@@ -114,6 +114,11 @@ void thread_initialize(void)
 {
 	thread_t *thread;
 
+	/* this must be called to init pthreads-win32 */
+#ifdef _WIN32
+	ptw32_processInitialize();
+#endif
+
 	/* set up logging */
 
 	log_initialize();