diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 27bf3c68..841c9fa4 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -32,13 +32,13 @@ jobs:
      env:
       - DEPLOY=true
       - TRAVIS_NODE_VERSION=12
-   - os: windows
-     language: sh
-     python: 3.6.8
-     env:
-      - DEPLOY=false  # set to true when tested and AppVeyor is deprecated
-      - TRAVIS_NODE_VERSION=12
-      - TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION=3.6.8
+   #- os: windows
+   #  language: sh
+   #  python: 3.6.8
+   #  env:
+   #   - DEPLOY=false  # set to true when tested and AppVeyor is deprecated
+   #   - TRAVIS_NODE_VERSION=12
+   #   - TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION=3.6.8
   allow_failures:
    - os: windows
 
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 514e593f..37d914e8 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ dist/ActivityWatch.app: aw-qt/media/logo/logo.icns
 	pyinstaller --clean --noconfirm --windowed aw.spec
 
 package:
+	pip install 'setuptools<45.0.0'  # workaround for https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/1963#issuecomment-573675633
 	mkdir -p dist/activitywatch
 #
 	make --directory=aw-watcher-afk package
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index fcbb07a7..b6694675 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ docs = ["sphinx", "jaraco.packaging (>=3.2)", "rst.linker (>=1.9)"]
 testing = ["jaraco.itertools", "func-timeout"]
 
 [metadata]
-content-hash = "d46994e3e58f7a0613bacce4128b8cd9b3ae5ea3652cf33e1bda73406e4ec134"
+content-hash = "8c296249df49a6d5abb880b14c59b343ae8b2b266a5c198833d3b2511fe356eb"
 python-versions = "^3.6"
 
 [metadata.files]
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6d1e73d3..351a668a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ pyinstaller = "3.5"
 psutil = "^5.7.0"
 pywin32-ctypes = {version = "^0.2.0", platform = "win32"}
 pefile = {version = "^2019.4.18", platform = "win32"}
+setuptools = "<45.0.0"  # workaround for https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/1963#issuecomment-573675633
 
 [build-system]
 requires = ["poetry>=0.12"]