<para>Force the message bus to fork and become a daemon, even if
the configuration file does not specify that it should.
In most contexts the configuration file already gets this
-right, though.
-<option>--nofork</option>
-Force the message bus not to fork and become a daemon, even if
-the configuration file specifies that it should.</para>
+right, though. This option is not supported on Windows.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--nofork</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Force the message bus not to fork and become a daemon, even if
+ the configuration file specifies that it should. On Windows,
+ the dbus-daemon never forks, so this option is allowed but does
+ nothing.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>