diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index 55e41a76b..3e12d0b9f 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -66,31 +66,31 @@ test_script:
   - if not exist "%CABAL_PACKAGE_DB%" ( mkdir "%CABAL_PACKAGE_DB%" )
   - cabal --store-dir="%CABAL_STORE%" --version
   - cabal --store-dir="%CABAL_STORE%" new-update
-  - cabal --store-dir="%CABAL_STORE%" new-configure -w %GHC% --enable-tests %CABAL_OPTS% --ghc-options="%GHC_OPTS%" . pandoc-citeproc
-  - cabal --store-dir="%CABAL_STORE%" new-build . pandoc-citeproc
-  - cabal --store-dir="%CABAL_STORE%" new-test . pandoc-citeproc
-  - forfiles /P .\dist-newstyle /M pandoc*.exe /S /C "cmd /C copy @path C:\pandoc\windows"
+  - cabal --store-dir="%CABAL_STORE%" new-configure -w %GHC% --enable-tests --dependencies-only %CABAL_OPTS% --ghc-options="%GHC_OPTS%" . pandoc-citeproc
+  - cabal --store-dir="%CABAL_STORE%" new-build --dependencies-only . pandoc-citeproc
+# - cabal --store-dir="%CABAL_STORE%" new-test . pandoc-citeproc
+# - forfiles /P .\dist-newstyle /M pandoc*.exe /S /C "cmd /C copy @path C:\pandoc\windows"
 
 after_test:
   # create msi and zip artifacts
   - cd windows
-  - .\pandoc.exe -s --toc ..\MANUAL.txt -o MANUAL.html
-  - .\pandoc.exe -s ..\COPYING.md -o COPYING.rtf
-  - copy ..\COPYRIGHT COPYRIGHT.txt
-  - 7z a "pandoc-%OSARCH%.zip" pandoc.exe pandoc-citeproc.exe MANUAL.html COPYING.rtf
-  - |
-      set VERSION=
-      for /f "tokens=1-2 delims= " %%a in ('.\pandoc.exe --version') do ( if not defined VERSION set "VERSION=%%b" )
-      echo %VERSION%
-      "%WIXBIN%"\candle -arch %ARCH% -dVERSION=%VERSION% -dBINPATH=. *.wxs -out wixobj\
-      "%WIXBIN%"\light -sw1076 -ext WixUIExtension -ext WixUtilExtension -cultures:en-us -loc Pandoc-en-us.wxl -out "pandoc-%OSARCH%.msi" wixobj\*.wixobj
+# - .\pandoc.exe -s --toc ..\MANUAL.txt -o MANUAL.html
+# - .\pandoc.exe -s ..\COPYING.md -o COPYING.rtf
+# - copy ..\COPYRIGHT COPYRIGHT.txt
+# - 7z a "pandoc-%OSARCH%.zip" pandoc.exe pandoc-citeproc.exe MANUAL.html COPYING.rtf
+# - |
+#     set VERSION=
+#     for /f "tokens=1-2 delims= " %%a in ('.\pandoc.exe --version') do ( if not defined VERSION set "VERSION=%%b" )
+#     echo %VERSION%
+#     "%WIXBIN%"\candle -arch %ARCH% -dVERSION=%VERSION% -dBINPATH=. *.wxs -out wixobj\
+#     "%WIXBIN%"\light -sw1076 -ext WixUIExtension -ext WixUtilExtension -cultures:en-us -loc Pandoc-en-us.wxl -out "pandoc-%OSARCH%.msi" wixobj\*.wixobj
 
 # for debugging
 # on_finish:
 #   - ps: $blockRdp = $true; iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/appveyor/ci/master/scripts/enable-rdp.ps1'))
 
 artifacts:
-  - path: 'windows\pandoc-%OSARCH%.zip'
-    name: exe
-  - path: 'windows\pandoc-%OSARCH%.msi'
-    name: msi
+# - path: 'windows\pandoc-%OSARCH%.zip'
+#   name: exe
+# - path: 'windows\pandoc-%OSARCH%.msi'
+#   name: msi