diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 65886fe183..b3a686b8cd 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3256,7 +3256,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "nu-utils",
  "percent-encoding",
  "reedline",
- "regex",
  "rstest",
  "sysinfo 0.32.0",
  "tempfile",
diff --git a/crates/nu-cli/Cargo.toml b/crates/nu-cli/Cargo.toml
index 2fa9161a0c..993bb1ac72 100644
--- a/crates/nu-cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/nu-cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -42,8 +42,6 @@ sysinfo = { workspace = true }
 unicode-segmentation = { workspace = true }
 uuid = { workspace = true, features = ["v4"] }
 which = { workspace = true }
-#[cfg(windows)]
-regex = { workspace = true }
 
 [features]
 plugin = ["nu-plugin-engine"]