diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 53cf8c40..efc0edd9 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ license = "MIT/Apache-2.0"
 name = "exec"
 readme = "README.md"
 repository = "https://github.com/faradayio/exec-rs"
-version = "0.3.1"
+version = "0.4.0"
 
 [dependencies]
 errno = "0.2"
diff --git a/examples/exec.rs b/examples/exec.rs
index 636794e2..c60c9df3 100644
--- a/examples/exec.rs
+++ b/examples/exec.rs
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ fn main() {
 
     // Exec the specified program.  If all goes well, this will never
     // return.  If it does return, it will always retun an error.
-    let err = exec::Command::new(&argv[0]).args(&argv).exec();
+    let err = exec::Command::new(&argv[0]).args(&argv[1..]).exec();
     println!("Error: {}", err);
     process::exit(1);
 }
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index ca2fed54..7703913f 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -11,12 +11,10 @@ extern crate libc;
 
 use errno::{Errno, errno};
 use std::error;
-use std::error::Error as ErrorTrait; // Include for methods, not name.
-use std::ffi::{CString, NulError, OsStr, OsString};
+use std::ffi::{OsStr, OsString};
 use std::iter::{IntoIterator, Iterator};
 use std::fmt;
 use std::ptr;
-use std::os::unix::ffi::OsStrExt;
 
 /// Represents an error calling `exec`.
 ///
@@ -29,41 +27,27 @@ use std::os::unix::ffi::OsStrExt;
 pub enum Error {
     /// One of the strings passed to `execv` contained an internal null byte
     /// and can't be passed correctly to C.
-    BadArgument(NulError),
+    NullByteInArgument,
     /// An error was returned by the system.
     Errno(Errno),
 }
 
-impl error::Error for Error {
-    fn description(&self) -> &str {
-        match self {
-            &Error::BadArgument(_) => "bad argument to exec",
-            &Error::Errno(_) => "couldn't exec process",
-        }
-    }
-    fn cause(&self) -> Option<&error::Error> {
-        match self {
-            &Error::BadArgument(ref err) => Some(err),
-            &Error::Errno(_) => None,
-        }
-    }
-}
+impl error::Error for Error {}
 
 impl fmt::Display for Error {
     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
         match self {
-            &Error::BadArgument(ref err) =>
-                write!(f, "{}: {}", self.description(), err),
-            &Error::Errno(err) =>
-                write!(f, "{}: {}", self.description(), err),
+            Error::NullByteInArgument =>
+                write!(f, "interior NUL byte in string argument to exec"),
+            Error::Errno(err) =>
+                write!(f, "couldn't exec process: {}", err),
         }
     }
 }
 
-impl From<NulError> for Error {
-    /// Convert a `NulError` into an `ExecError`.
-    fn from(err: NulError) -> Error {
-        Error::BadArgument(err)
+impl From<Errno> for Error {
+    fn from(err: Errno) -> Error {
+        Error::Errno(err)
     }
 }
 
@@ -97,16 +81,33 @@ macro_rules! exec_try {
 pub fn execvp<S, I>(program: S, args: I) -> Error
     where S: AsRef<OsStr>, I: IntoIterator, I::Item: AsRef<OsStr>
 {
+    execvp_impl(program, args)
+}
+
+#[cfg(unix)]
+fn execvp_impl<S, I>(program: S, args: I) -> Error
+    where S: AsRef<OsStr>, I: IntoIterator, I::Item: AsRef<OsStr>
+{
+    use std::ffi::CString;
+    use std::os::unix::ffi::OsStrExt;
+
     // Add null terminations to our strings and our argument array,
     // converting them into a C-compatible format.
-    let program_cstring =
-        exec_try!(CString::new(program.as_ref().as_bytes()));
-    let arg_cstrings = exec_try!(args.into_iter().map(|arg| {
-        CString::new(arg.as_ref().as_bytes())
-    }).collect::<Result<Vec<_>, _>>());
-    let mut arg_charptrs: Vec<_> = arg_cstrings.iter().map(|arg| {
-        arg.as_ptr()
-    }).collect();
+    let program_cstring = exec_try!(
+        CString::new(program.as_ref().as_bytes())
+            .map_err(|_| Error::NullByteInArgument)
+    );
+    let arg_cstrings = exec_try!(
+        args.into_iter()
+            .map(|arg| {
+                CString::new(arg.as_ref().as_bytes())
+                    .map_err(|_| Error::NullByteInArgument)
+            })
+            .collect::<Result<Vec<_>, _>>()
+    );
+    let mut arg_charptrs: Vec<_> = arg_cstrings.iter()
+        .map(|arg| arg.as_ptr())
+        .collect();
     arg_charptrs.push(ptr::null());
 
     // Use an `unsafe` block so that we can call directly into C.
@@ -123,6 +124,51 @@ pub fn execvp<S, I>(program: S, args: I) -> Error
     }
 }
 
+#[cfg(windows)]
+extern "C" {
+    // https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/execvp-wexecvp
+    pub fn _wexecvp(cmdname: *const libc::wchar_t, argv: *const *const libc::wchar_t)
+        -> libc::intptr_t;
+}
+
+#[cfg(windows)]
+fn execvp_impl<S, I>(program: S, args: I) -> Error
+    where S: AsRef<OsStr>, I: IntoIterator, I::Item: AsRef<OsStr>
+{
+    use std::os::windows::ffi::OsStrExt;
+
+    let wcstring = |s: &OsStr| -> Result<Vec<u16>, Error> {
+        let mut vec: Vec<u16> = s.encode_wide().collect();
+        if vec.iter().any(|&x| x == 0) {
+            // We have an interior null.
+            // The Unix impl includes a NulError, but that's only constructible using CString.
+            Err(Error::NullByteInArgument)
+        } else {
+            vec.push(0); // append null terminator
+            Ok(vec)
+        }
+    };
+
+    let program_wide = exec_try!(wcstring(program.as_ref()));
+    let args_wide = exec_try!(args.into_iter()
+        .map(|arg| wcstring(arg.as_ref()))
+        .collect::<Result<Vec<_>, _>>());
+    let mut arg_ptrs: Vec<_> = args_wide.iter().map(|arg| arg.as_ptr()).collect();
+    arg_ptrs.push(ptr::null());
+
+    let res = unsafe {
+        _wexecvp(program_wide.as_ptr(), arg_ptrs.as_ptr())
+    };
+
+    // Handle our error result.
+    if res < 0 {
+        Error::Errno(errno())
+    } else {
+        // Should never happen.
+        panic!("_wexecvp returned unexpectedly")
+    }
+}
+
 /// Build a command to execute.  This has an API which is deliberately
 /// similar to `std::process::Command`.
 ///