diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 508f03ab0..cfa6d4e7d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3010,7 +3010,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "filetime",
  "time",
  "uucore",
- "winapi",
+ "windows-sys 0.42.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/src/uu/touch/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/touch/Cargo.toml
index 2e3504cbe..a8fadffdb 100644
--- a/src/uu/touch/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/touch/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ time = { version = "0.3", features = ["parsing", "formatting", "local-offset", "
 uucore = { version=">=0.0.16", package="uucore", path="../../uucore", features=["libc"] }
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "windows")'.dependencies]
-winapi = { version = "0.3" }
+windows-sys = { version = "0.42.0", default-features = false, features = ["Win32_Storage_FileSystem", "Win32_Foundation"] }
 
 [[bin]]
 name = "touch"
diff --git a/src/uu/touch/src/touch.rs b/src/uu/touch/src/touch.rs
index e94426aff..f397d2eaf 100644
--- a/src/uu/touch/src/touch.rs
+++ b/src/uu/touch/src/touch.rs
@@ -472,19 +472,16 @@ fn pathbuf_from_stdout() -> UResult<PathBuf> {
     #[cfg(windows)]
     {
         use std::os::windows::prelude::AsRawHandle;
-        use winapi::shared::minwindef::{DWORD, MAX_PATH};
-        use winapi::shared::winerror::{
-            ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER, ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY, ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND,
+        use windows_sys::Win32::Foundation::{
+            GetLastError, ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER, ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY, ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND,
+            HANDLE, MAX_PATH,
+        };
+        use windows_sys::Win32::Storage::FileSystem::{
+            GetFinalPathNameByHandleW, FILE_NAME_OPENED,
         };
-        use winapi::um::errhandlingapi::GetLastError;
-        use winapi::um::fileapi::GetFinalPathNameByHandleW;
-        use winapi::um::winnt::WCHAR;
 
-        let handle = std::io::stdout().lock().as_raw_handle();
-        let mut file_path_buffer: [WCHAR; MAX_PATH as usize] = [0; MAX_PATH as usize];
-
-        // Couldn't find this in winapi
-        const FILE_NAME_OPENED: DWORD = 0x8;
+        let handle = std::io::stdout().lock().as_raw_handle() as HANDLE;
+        let mut file_path_buffer: [u16; MAX_PATH as usize] = [0; MAX_PATH as usize];
 
         // https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-getfinalpathnamebyhandlea#examples
         // SAFETY: We transmute the handle to be able to cast *mut c_void into a