diff --git a/cmake/compiler_flags.cmake b/cmake/compiler_flags.cmake
index 6537703f976..2f6f5cdf96d 100644
--- a/cmake/compiler_flags.cmake
+++ b/cmake/compiler_flags.cmake
@@ -51,11 +51,11 @@ message(STATUS "Processor is : ${CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR}")
 if (MSVC)
   ## enable 'AVX' on x86-64, to achive faster base64 en-/decoding via SIMDe
   ## note: MSVC lacks flags for SSE3/SSE4 (only unofficial ones like /d2archSSE42 are available, but SIMDe does not care about them)
-  if(${CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR} MATCHES "${x64_CPU}") 
+  ##if(${CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR} MATCHES "${x64_CPU}") 
     ## for SIMDe we need to use explicit compiler flags, which in turn define macros (like '#define __AVX__'), which SIMDe will check for and only then create vectorized code
     ## Disabling AVX will actually make the SIMDe code slower compared to the non-SSE version (for Base64 encoding/decoding at least)
-    add_compile_options(/arch:AVX)
-  endif()
+    ##add_compile_options(/arch:AVX)
+  ##endif()
 else()  ## GCC/Clang/AppleClang
   ## enable SSE3 on x86, to achive faster base64 en-/decoding
   if(${CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR} MATCHES "${x64_CPU}") 
@@ -195,4 +195,4 @@ if (CXX_WARN_CONVERSION)
     add_compile_options(-Wconversion)
   endif()
 endif()
-message(STATUS "Compiler checks for conversion: ${CXX_WARN_CONVERSION}")
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+message(STATUS "Compiler checks for conversion: ${CXX_WARN_CONVERSION}")