diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 2d6599d13b..0a62771c61 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1224,7 +1224,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "wait-timeout",
  "webbrowser",
  "windows",
- "windows-core",
  "windows-sys 0.61.2",
  "wiremock",
 ]
diff --git a/crates/tui/Cargo.toml b/crates/tui/Cargo.toml
index 8cf080f35d..e4a036583f 100644
--- a/crates/tui/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/tui/Cargo.toml
@@ -162,8 +162,3 @@ objc2-foundation = { version = "0.3.2", default-features = false, features = ["s
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "windows")'.dependencies]
 windows = { version = "0.62", features = ["Win32_Foundation", "Win32_Media_Audio", "Win32_Security", "Win32_Security_Authorization", "Win32_Storage_FileSystem", "Win32_System_Console", "Win32_System_Diagnostics_Debug", "Win32_System_Diagnostics_ToolHelp", "Win32_System_Environment", "Win32_System_JobObjects", "Win32_System_Registry", "Win32_System_Threading", "Win32_UI_WindowsAndMessaging"] }
-# `windows` re-exports most of windows-core's types but not all of them
-# (BOOL, HRESULT, … live in windows-core itself); window_control.rs names
-# windows_core::BOOL for the EnumWindows callback, so it must be a direct
-# dependency. Version already resolved via `windows` — no extra build work.
-windows-core = { version = "0.62" }
diff --git a/crates/tui/src/tui/window_control.rs b/crates/tui/src/tui/window_control.rs
index a80eab92ac..9acfe79acb 100644
--- a/crates/tui/src/tui/window_control.rs
+++ b/crates/tui/src/tui/window_control.rs
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ mod imp {
         SW_RESTORE, SWP_ASYNCWINDOWPOS, SWP_NOACTIVATE, SWP_NOMOVE, SWP_NOSIZE, SWP_SHOWWINDOW,
         SetWindowPos, ShowWindowAsync, WINDOWINFO, WS_EX_TOPMOST, WS_MAXIMIZE,
     };
-    use windows_core::BOOL;
+    use windows::core::BOOL;
 
     /// Pin state: remembers the pre-pin window rect so unpinning restores it,
     /// plus whether the window was maximized (unpin restores maximized then,