diff --git a/src/xz/file_io.c b/src/xz/file_io.c
index 97d6b401..8c83269b 100644
--- a/src/xz/file_io.c
+++ b/src/xz/file_io.c
@@ -1390,6 +1390,19 @@ io_write_buf(file_pair *pair, const uint8_t *buf, size_t size)
 			}
 #endif
 
+#if defined(_WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__)
+			// On native Windows, broken pipe is reported as
+			// EINVAL. Don't show an error message in this case.
+			// Try: xz -dc bigfile.xz | head -n1
+			if (errno == EINVAL
+					&& pair->dest_fd == STDOUT_FILENO) {
+				// Emulate SIGPIPE by setting user_abort here.
+				user_abort = true;
+				set_exit_status(E_ERROR);
+				return true;
+			}
+#endif
+
 			// Handle broken pipe specially. gzip and bzip2
 			// don't print anything on SIGPIPE. In addition,
 			// gzip --quiet uses exit status 2 (warning) on
diff --git a/src/xzdec/xzdec.c b/src/xzdec/xzdec.c
index 84134213..96e24444 100644
--- a/src/xzdec/xzdec.c
+++ b/src/xzdec/xzdec.c
@@ -230,8 +230,17 @@ uncompress(lzma_stream *strm, FILE *file, const char *filename)
 				// Wouldn't be a surprise if writing to stderr
 				// would fail too but at least try to show an
 				// error message.
-				my_errorf("Cannot write to standard output: "
+#if defined(_WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__)
+				// On native Windows, broken pipe is reported
+				// as EINVAL. Don't show an error message
+				// in this case.
+				if (errno != EINVAL)
+#endif
+				{
+					my_errorf("Cannot write to "
+						"standard output: "
 						"%s", strerror(errno));
+				}
 				exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 			}