diff --git a/register-plugins.nu b/register-plugins.nu
index 88350319ec..7aed530c68 100644
--- a/register-plugins.nu
+++ b/register-plugins.nu
@@ -9,21 +9,13 @@ let plugin_location = ((which nu).path.0 | path dirname)
 # for each plugin file, print the name and launch another instance of nushell to register it
 for plugin in (ls $"($plugin_location)/nu_plugin_*") {
     print $"registering ($plugin.name)"
-    match ($plugin.name | path basename) {
-        # MacOS/Linux
+    match ($plugin.name | path basename | str replace '\.exe$' '') {
         nu_plugin_custom_values: { nu -c $'register -e msgpack ($plugin.name)' }
         nu_plugin_example: { nu -c $'register -e msgpack ($plugin.name)' }
         nu_plugin_from_parquet: { nu -c $'register -e json ($plugin.name)' }
         nu_plugin_gstat: { nu -c $'register -e msgpack ($plugin.name)' }
         nu_plugin_inc: { nu -c $'register -e json ($plugin.name)' }
         nu_plugin_query: { nu -c $'register -e json ($plugin.name)' }
-        # Windows
-        nu_plugin_custom_values.exe: { nu -c $'register -e msgpack ($plugin.name)' }
-        nu_plugin_example.exe: { nu -c $'register -e msgpack ($plugin.name)' }
-        nu_plugin_from_parquet.exe: { nu -c $'register -e json ($plugin.name)' }
-        nu_plugin_gstat.exe: { nu -c $'register -e msgpack ($plugin.name)' }
-        nu_plugin_inc.exe: { nu -c $'register -e json ($plugin.name)' }
-        nu_plugin_query.exe: { nu -c $'register -e json ($plugin.name)' }
     }
 }