diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 53c649a6..f7d25eb0 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Version 2.8.2-stable+timestamp.2013.12.04.19.34.45
+Version 2.8.2-stable+timestamp.2013.12.06.20.14.05
diff --git a/gluon/widget.py b/gluon/widget.py
index 2a8ddc98..371d1147 100644
--- a/gluon/widget.py
+++ b/gluon/widget.py
@@ -1224,7 +1224,10 @@ end tell
     if not options.nobanner:
         print 'please visit:'
         print '\t', url
-        print 'use "kill -SIGTERM %i" to shutdown the web2py server' % os.getpid()
+        if sys.platform.startswith('win'):
+            print 'use "taskkill /f /pid %i" to shutdown the web2py server' % os.getpid()
+        else:
+            print 'use "kill -SIGTERM %i" to shutdown the web2py server' % os.getpid()
 
     # enhance linecache.getline (used by debugger) to look at the source file
     # if the line was not found (under py2exe & when file was modified)