diff --git a/tesseract.vcproj b/tesseract.vcproj
index 26102b44..71f075ac 100755
--- a/tesseract.vcproj
+++ b/tesseract.vcproj
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@
 			/>
 			<Tool
 				Name="VCLinkerTool"
+				AdditionalOptions="/NODEFAULTLIB:library"
 				AdditionalDependencies="ws2_32.lib user32.lib lib\leptonlib.lib"
 				OutputFile="tesseract.exe"
 				LinkIncremental="1"
diff --git a/training/cntraining.vcproj b/training/cntraining.vcproj
index ddc64463..b6141307 100755
--- a/training/cntraining.vcproj
+++ b/training/cntraining.vcproj
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
 			/>
 			<Tool
 				Name="VCLinkerTool"
+				AdditionalOptions="/NODEFAULTLIB:library"
 				AdditionalDependencies="ws2_32.lib user32.lib ..\lib\leptonlib.lib"
 				OutputFile="..\cntraining.exe"
 				LinkIncremental="1"
diff --git a/training/combine_tessdata.vcproj b/training/combine_tessdata.vcproj
index a72bd1cb..430794db 100644
--- a/training/combine_tessdata.vcproj
+++ b/training/combine_tessdata.vcproj
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
 			/>
 			<Tool
 				Name="VCLinkerTool"
+				AdditionalOptions="/NODEFAULTLIB:library"
 				AdditionalDependencies="ws2_32.lib user32.lib ..\lib\leptonlib.lib"
 				OutputFile="..\combine_tessdata.exe"
 				LinkIncremental="1"
diff --git a/training/mftraining.vcproj b/training/mftraining.vcproj
index a8ddfe77..defe79b4 100755
--- a/training/mftraining.vcproj
+++ b/training/mftraining.vcproj
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@
 			/>
 			<Tool
 				Name="VCLinkerTool"
+				AdditionalOptions="/NODEFAULTLIB:library"
 				AdditionalDependencies="user32.lib ws2_32.lib ..\lib\leptonlib.lib"
 				OutputFile="..\mftraining.exe"
 				LinkIncremental="1"
diff --git a/training/unicharset_extractor.vcproj b/training/unicharset_extractor.vcproj
index 95b475b1..bb8482bd 100755
--- a/training/unicharset_extractor.vcproj
+++ b/training/unicharset_extractor.vcproj
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
 			/>
 			<Tool
 				Name="VCLinkerTool"
+				AdditionalOptions="/NODEFAULTLIB:library"
 				AdditionalDependencies="user32.lib"
 				OutputFile="..\unicharset_extractor.exe"
 				LinkIncremental="1"
diff --git a/training/wordlist2dawg.vcproj b/training/wordlist2dawg.vcproj
index 3338b49f..bdd0b2c2 100755
--- a/training/wordlist2dawg.vcproj
+++ b/training/wordlist2dawg.vcproj
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@
 			/>
 			<Tool
 				Name="VCLinkerTool"
+				AdditionalOptions="/NODEFAULTLIB:library"
 				AdditionalDependencies="ws2_32.lib user32.lib ..\lib\leptonlib.lib"
 				OutputFile="..\wordlist2dawg.exe"
 				LinkIncremental="1"
diff --git a/viewer/scrollview.cpp b/viewer/scrollview.cpp
index 1711d8ae..0ad14172 100644
--- a/viewer/scrollview.cpp
+++ b/viewer/scrollview.cpp
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 // e.g. parsing & sending messages, images etc.
 #ifdef WIN32
 #pragma warning(disable:4786)  // Don't give stupid warnings for stl
+#pragma warning(disable:4018)  // signed/unsigned warningss
 #endif
 
 const int kSvPort = 8461;