diff --git a/man/man1/exiv2.1 b/man/man1/exiv2.1
index 610fc7205d..740e51892f 100644
--- a/man/man1/exiv2.1
+++ b/man/man1/exiv2.1
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ the YYYY:MM:DD HH:MM:SS standard.
 .sp 1
 .ne 40
 .SH CONFIGURATION FILE
-Exiv2 can read an optional configuration file. It first looks in the current working directory for a file named .exiv2 on Unix systems and exiv2.ini on Windows (using a Visual Studio build).  Cygwin and MinGW/msys2 follow the unix convention. If no file is found Exiv2 will also check ~/.exiv2 on Unix systems or %USERPROFILE%\\exiv2.ini on Windows systems. You can determine the location of the configuration file with the command:
+Exiv2 can read an optional configuration file. It first looks in the current working directory for a file named .exiv2 on Unix systems and exiv2.ini on Windows. If no file is found Exiv2 will also check ~/.exiv2 on Unix systems or %USERPROFILE%\\exiv2.ini on Windows systems. You can determine the location of the configuration file with the command:
 .br
 .sp 1
 .nf