diff --git a/app/.classpath b/app/.classpath
index b7dd58fc4bc..315612244ef 100644
--- a/app/.classpath
+++ b/app/.classpath
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/slf4j-api-1.7.22.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/slf4j-simple-1.7.22.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/jsch-0.1.50.jar"/>
-	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/jssc-2.8.0.jar"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/jssc-2.8.0-arduino1.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/rsyntaxtextarea-2.6.1.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/xml-apis-1.3.04.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/xml-apis-ext-1.3.04.jar"/>
diff --git a/app/lib/jssc-2.8.0.jar b/app/lib/jssc-2.8.0-arduino1.jar
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
similarity index 86%
rename from app/lib/jssc-2.8.0.jar
rename to app/lib/jssc-2.8.0-arduino1.jar
index d2b5c070aa9..3cf257ea634
Binary files a/app/lib/jssc-2.8.0.jar and b/app/lib/jssc-2.8.0-arduino1.jar differ
diff --git a/arduino-core/.classpath b/arduino-core/.classpath
index 4167a9dd3cd..99329d1b865 100644
--- a/arduino-core/.classpath
+++ b/arduino-core/.classpath
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/jmdns-3.5.1.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/slf4j-api-1.7.22.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/slf4j-simple-1.7.22.jar"/>
-	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/jssc-2.8.0.jar"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/jssc-2.8.0-arduino1.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/jsch-0.1.50.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/commons-exec-1.1.jar"/>
 	<classpathentry kind="lib" path="../app/lib/commons-codec-1.7.jar"/>
diff --git a/arduino-core/lib/jssc-2.8.0.jar b/arduino-core/lib/jssc-2.8.0-arduino1.jar
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
similarity index 86%
rename from arduino-core/lib/jssc-2.8.0.jar
rename to arduino-core/lib/jssc-2.8.0-arduino1.jar
index d2b5c070aa9..3cf257ea634
Binary files a/arduino-core/lib/jssc-2.8.0.jar and b/arduino-core/lib/jssc-2.8.0-arduino1.jar differ
diff --git a/arduino-core/src/processing/app/windows/Platform.java b/arduino-core/src/processing/app/windows/Platform.java
index 349415b2bb4..2b426f72885 100644
--- a/arduino-core/src/processing/app/windows/Platform.java
+++ b/arduino-core/src/processing/app/windows/Platform.java
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 
 import com.sun.jna.Native;
 import com.sun.jna.Pointer;
+import com.sun.jna.platform.win32.Shell32;
 import com.sun.jna.win32.StdCallLibrary;
 import com.sun.jna.win32.W32APIOptions;
 
@@ -129,11 +130,15 @@ public void openURL(String url) throws Exception {
       if (file.exists()) {
         // in this case convert the path to a "file:" url
         url = file.toURI().toString();
-
-        // this allows to open the file on Windows 10 that
-        // has a more strict permission policy for cmd.exe
       }
     }
+    if (url.startsWith("http") || url.startsWith("file:")) {
+      // this allows to open the file on Windows 10 that
+      // has a more strict permission policy for cmd.exe
+      final int SW_SHOW = 5;
+      Shell32.INSTANCE.ShellExecute(null, null, url, null, null, SW_SHOW);
+      return;
+    }
 
     // this is not guaranteed to work, because who knows if the
     // path will always be c:\progra~1 et al. also if the user has
@@ -150,18 +155,12 @@ public void openURL(String url) throws Exception {
     // "Access is denied" in both cygwin and the "dos" prompt.
     //Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c " + currentDir + "\\reference\\" +
     //                    referenceFile + ".html");
-    if (url.startsWith("http") || url.startsWith("file:")) {
-      // open dos prompt, give it 'start' command, which will
-      // open the url properly. start by itself won't work since
-      // it appears to need cmd
-      Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c start \"\" \"" + url + "\"");
-    } else {
-      // just launching the .html file via the shell works
-      // but make sure to chmod +x the .html files first
-      // also place quotes around it in case there's a space
-      // in the user.dir part of the url
-      Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c \"" + url + "\"");
-    }
+
+    // just launching the .html file via the shell works
+    // but make sure to chmod +x the .html files first
+    // also place quotes around it in case there's a space
+    // in the user.dir part of the url
+    Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c \"" + url + "\"");
   }
 
 
diff --git a/build/build.xml b/build/build.xml
index f8a467e28f0..ebf69b67a89 100644
--- a/build/build.xml
+++ b/build/build.xml
@@ -1037,6 +1037,33 @@
       <param name="file" value="windows/work/lib/jnidispatch-4.2.2-win32-x86.dll" />
     </antcall>
 
+    <exec executable="unzip" failonerror="true">
+      <arg value="-q" />
+      <arg value="-n" />
+      <arg value="-j" />
+      <arg value="-d" />
+      <arg value="windows/work/lib" />
+      <arg value="../arduino-core/lib/jssc-2.8.0-arduino1.jar" />
+      <arg value="libs/windows/jSSC-2.8_x86.dll" />
+    </exec>
+    <move file="windows/work/lib/jSSC-2.8_x86.dll" tofile="windows/work/lib/jSSC-2.8_x86.dll" />
+    <antcall target="make-file-executable">
+      <param name="file" value="windows/work/lib/jSSC-2.8_x86.dll" />
+    </antcall>
+    <exec executable="unzip" failonerror="true">
+      <arg value="-q" />
+      <arg value="-n" />
+      <arg value="-j" />
+      <arg value="-d" />
+      <arg value="windows/work/lib" />
+      <arg value="../arduino-core/lib/jssc-2.8.0-arduino1.jar" />
+      <arg value="libs/windows/jSSC-2.8_x86_64.dll" />
+    </exec>
+    <move file="windows/work/lib/jSSC-2.8_x86_64.dll" tofile="windows/work/lib/jSSC-2.8_x86_64.dll" />
+    <antcall target="make-file-executable">
+      <param name="file" value="windows/work/lib/jSSC-2.8_x86_64.dll" />
+    </antcall>
+
     <antcall target="assemble">
       <param name="target.path" value="windows/work" />
     </antcall>
diff --git a/build/windows/launcher/config.xml b/build/windows/launcher/config.xml
index 2abf18455c7..9b9faf4c047 100644
--- a/build/windows/launcher/config.xml
+++ b/build/windows/launcher/config.xml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
     <cp>%EXEDIR%/lib/jna-4.2.2.jar</cp>
     <cp>%EXEDIR%/lib/jna-platform-4.2.2.jar</cp>
     <cp>%EXEDIR%/lib/jsch-0.1.50.jar</cp>
-    <cp>%EXEDIR%/lib/jssc-2.8.0.jar</cp>
+    <cp>%EXEDIR%/lib/jssc-2.8.0-arduino1.jar</cp>
     <cp>%EXEDIR%/lib/pde.jar</cp>
     <cp>%EXEDIR%/lib/rsyntaxtextarea-2.6.1.jar</cp>
     <cp>%EXEDIR%/lib/xml-apis-1.3.04.jar</cp>
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
     <opt>-Djna.nounpack=true</opt>
     <opt>-Djna.boot.library.name=jnidispatch-4.2.2-win32-x86</opt>
     <opt>-Djna.boot.library.path="%EXEDIR%"/lib</opt>
+    <opt>-Djssc.library.path="%EXEDIR%"/lib</opt>
     <opt>-DAPP_DIR="%EXEDIR%"</opt>
   </jre>
   <versionInfo>
diff --git a/build/windows/launcher/config_debug.xml b/build/windows/launcher/config_debug.xml
index 04386666306..fb7cebe876c 100644
--- a/build/windows/launcher/config_debug.xml
+++ b/build/windows/launcher/config_debug.xml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
     <cp>%EXEDIR%/lib/jna-4.2.2.jar</cp>
     <cp>%EXEDIR%/lib/jna-platform-4.2.2.jar</cp>
     <cp>%EXEDIR%/lib/jsch-0.1.50.jar</cp>
-    <cp>%EXEDIR%/lib/jssc-2.8.0.jar</cp>
+    <cp>%EXEDIR%/lib/jssc-2.8.0-arduino1.jar</cp>
     <cp>%EXEDIR%/lib/pde.jar</cp>
     <cp>%EXEDIR%/lib/rsyntaxtextarea-2.6.1.jar</cp>
     <cp>%EXEDIR%/lib/xml-apis-1.3.04.jar</cp>
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
     <opt>-Djna.nounpack=true</opt>
     <opt>-Djna.boot.library.name=jnidispatch-4.2.2-win32-x86</opt>
     <opt>-Djna.boot.library.path="%EXEDIR%"/lib</opt>
+    <opt>-Djssc.library.path="%EXEDIR%"/lib</opt>
     <opt>-Djna.debug_load=true</opt>
     <opt>-DAPP_DIR="%EXEDIR%"</opt>
     <opt>-DDEBUG=true</opt>