diff --git a/runprebuild.bat b/runprebuild.bat
index 0fd7bbff4d..5f75982e79 100755
--- a/runprebuild.bat
+++ b/runprebuild.bat
@@ -7,18 +7,24 @@ setlocal ENABLEEXTENSIONS
 set KEY_NAME="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSBuild\ToolsVersions\4.0"
 set VALUE_NAME=MSBuildToolsPath
 
-FOR /F "usebackq skip=4 tokens=1-3" %%A IN (`REG QUERY %KEY_NAME% /v %VALUE_NAME% 2^>nul`) DO (
+rem We have to use find here as req query spits out 4 lines before Windows 7
+rem But 2 lines after Windows 7.  Unfortunately, this screws up cygwin
+rem as it uses its own find command.  This could be fixed but it could be
+rem complex to find the location of find on all windows systems
+FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1-3" %%A IN (`REG QUERY %KEY_NAME% /v %VALUE_NAME% 2^>nul ^| FIND "%VALUE_NAME%"`) DO (
     set ValueName=%%A
     set ValueType=%%B
     set ValueValue=%%C
 )
 
 if defined ValueName (
+    @echo Found msbuild path registry entry
     @echo Value Name = %ValueName%
     @echo Value Type = %ValueType%
     @echo Value Value = %ValueValue%
+    @echo Creating compile.bat
+    @echo %ValueValue%\msbuild opensim.sln > compile.bat
 ) else (
     @echo %KEY_NAME%\%VALUE_NAME% not found.
+    @echo Not creating compile.bat
 )
-
-@echo %ValueValue%\msbuild opensim.sln > compile.bat