diff --git a/zenmap/install_scripts/windows/boot_script.py b/zenmap/install_scripts/windows/boot_script.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..db0be734d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/zenmap/install_scripts/windows/boot_script.py
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Custom py2exe boot script
+
+# This runs after py2exe's boot_common.py. That file overrides sys.stderr and
+# sys.stdout to write to a logfile and a black hole, respectively. The location
+# for the stderr logfile is sys.executable + '.log', though, which is not
+# usually writable. We'll change it here to write to some other writable path.
+
+
+import sys
+import os
+import os.path
+
+
+#sys.stderr.write("Enter boot_script\n")
+# Only do this if py2exe installed its Stderr object
+if sys.stderr.__class__.__name__ == "Stderr":
+    logdir = os.environ.get("LOCALAPPDATA",
+            os.environ.get("APPDATA",
+                os.environ.get("TEMP", "")))
+
+    if sys.stderr._file is not None:
+        sys.stderr._file.close()
+    sys.stderr._file = open(os.path.join(logdir, "zenmap.exe.log"), 'a')
+
+
+del os
+del sys
diff --git a/zenmap/setup.py b/zenmap/setup.py
index a3e7aaf9b..3cc9b7c97 100755
--- a/zenmap/setup.py
+++ b/zenmap/setup.py
@@ -604,7 +604,8 @@ if 'py2exe' in sys.argv:
             "includes": ["pango", "atk", "gobject", "gio", "pickle", "bz2",
                 "encodings", "encodings.*", "cairo", "pangocairo"],
             "dll_excludes": ["USP10.dll", "NSI.dll", "MSIMG32.dll",
-                "DNSAPI.dll"]
+                "DNSAPI.dll"],
+            "custom_boot_script": "install_scripts/windows/boot_script.py",
             }
         }
     }