diff --git a/lib/pure/os.nim b/lib/pure/os.nim
index 449ae1d841..fbd722863e 100644
--- a/lib/pure/os.nim
+++ b/lib/pure/os.nim
@@ -1801,9 +1801,9 @@ proc tryMoveFSObject(source, dest: string): bool {.noNimScript.} =
     when useWinUnicode:
       let s = newWideCString(source)
       let d = newWideCString(dest)
-      if moveFileExW(s, d, MOVEFILE_COPY_ALLOWED) == 0'i32: raiseOSError(osLastError(), $(source, dest))
+      if moveFileExW(s, d, MOVEFILE_COPY_ALLOWED or MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING) == 0'i32: raiseOSError(osLastError(), $(source, dest))
     else:
-      if moveFileExA(source, dest, MOVEFILE_COPY_ALLOWED) == 0'i32: raiseOSError(osLastError(), $(source, dest))
+      if moveFileExA(source, dest, MOVEFILE_COPY_ALLOWED or MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING) == 0'i32: raiseOSError(osLastError(), $(source, dest))
   else:
     if c_rename(source, dest) != 0'i32:
       let err = osLastError()