diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6d26aac0..e4684510 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Changelog
 
 ### 1.7 (December 22, 2013)
 
-* __1.7.4__ Gets rid of colorama.
+* __1.7.5__ Colorama is only needed on windows. Smaller fixes
 * __1.7.3__ Touches temporary files before opening them to allow more external editors.
 * __1.7.2__ Dateutil added to requirements.
 * __1.7.1__ Fixes issues with parsing time information in entries.
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index df698485..f2fbf16a 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (c) 2013 Manuel Ebert
+Copyright (c) 2014 Manuel Ebert
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 
diff --git a/docs/advanced.rst b/docs/advanced.rst
index b00c4525..b7d098f1 100644
--- a/docs/advanced.rst
+++ b/docs/advanced.rst
@@ -99,3 +99,8 @@ Your ``default`` and your ``food`` journals won't be encrypted, however your ``w
 
     Changing ``encrypt`` to a different value will not encrypt or decrypt your journal file, it merely says whether or not your journal `is` encrypted. Hence manually changing this option will most likely result in your journal file being impossible to load.
 
+Known Issues
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- The Windows shell prior to Windows 7 has issues with unicode encoding. If you want to use non-ascii characters, change the codepage with ``chcp 1252`` before using `jrnl` (Thanks to Yves Pouplard for solving this!)
+- _jrnl_ relies on the `PyCrypto` package to encrypt journals, which has some known problems with installing on Windows and within virtual environments.
diff --git a/docs/recipes.rst b/docs/recipes.rst
index 852b1219..0bfb92a5 100644
--- a/docs/recipes.rst
+++ b/docs/recipes.rst
@@ -36,6 +36,26 @@ On OS X, you can use the fabulous `iA Writer <http://www.iawriter.com/mac>`_ to
 
 What does this do? ``open -b ...`` opens a file using the application identified by the bundle identifier (a unique string for every app out there). ``-Wn`` tells the application to wait until it's closed before passing back control, and to use a new instance of the application.
 
+
+Using Notepad++ to write entries on Windows
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. note::
+
+    The configuration file is typically found at ``C:\Users\[Your Username]\.jrnl_conf``. This is just a text file and so can be edited in a text editor (but don't use Notepad, it will mess with the line endings).
+
+To set `Notepad++ <http://notepad-plus-plus.org/>`_ as your editor, edit the jrnl config file (``.jrnl_conf``) like this:
+
+.. code-block:: javascript
+
+    {
+      ...
+      "editor": "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Notepad++\\notepad++.exe -multiInst",
+    }
+
+The double backslashes are needed so jrnl can read the file path correctly. The ``-multiInst`` option will cause jrnl to open its own Notepad++ window. When you're done editing an entry in Notepad++, save the file and close the Notepad++ window for jrnl to know you're done editing and record your changes.
+
+
 Known Issues
 ------------
 
diff --git a/jrnl/__init__.py b/jrnl/__init__.py
index 33c20aa5..a8e1bfe3 100644
--- a/jrnl/__init__.py
+++ b/jrnl/__init__.py
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ jrnl is a simple journal application for your command line.
 """
 
 __title__ = 'jrnl'
-__version__ = '1.7.4'
+__version__ = '1.7.5'
 __author__ = 'Manuel Ebert'
 __license__ = 'MIT License'
-__copyright__ = 'Copyright 2013 Manuel Ebert'
+__copyright__ = 'Copyright 2013 - 2014 Manuel Ebert'
 
 from . import Journal
 from . import cli
diff --git a/jrnl/util.py b/jrnl/util.py
index 102433c7..0c5d148d 100644
--- a/jrnl/util.py
+++ b/jrnl/util.py
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ import keyring
 import pytz
 try: import simplejson as json
 except ImportError: import json
+if "win32" in sys.platform:
+    import colorama
+    colorama.init()
 import re
 import tempfile
 import subprocess
@@ -126,11 +129,9 @@ def load_and_fix_json(json_path):
 
 def get_text_from_editor(config, template=""):
     tmpfile = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), "jrnl")
-    if template:
-        with codecs.open(tmpfile, 'w', "utf-8") as f:
+    with codecs.open(tmpfile, 'w', "utf-8") as f:
+        if template:
             f.write(template)
-    with open(tmpfile, 'w'):
-        pass
     subprocess.call(config['editor'].split() + [tmpfile])
     with codecs.open(tmpfile, "r", "utf-8") as f:
         raw = f.read()
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fafd0515..bd6455e1 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ def get_version(filename="jrnl/__init__.py"):
 
 conditional_dependencies = {
     "pyreadline>=2.0": "win32" in sys.platform,
+    "colorama>=0.2.5": "win32" in sys.platform,
     "argparse==1.2.1": sys.version.startswith("2.6")
 }