diff --git a/windows/win_copy.ps1 b/windows/win_copy.ps1
deleted file mode 100644
index 9ffdab85f03..00000000000
--- a/windows/win_copy.ps1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
-#!powershell
-# This file is part of Ansible
-#
-# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-# WANT_JSON
-# POWERSHELL_COMMON
-
-$params = Parse-Args $args;
-
-$src= Get-Attr $params "src" $FALSE;
-If ($src -eq $FALSE)
-{
-    Fail-Json (New-Object psobject) "missing required argument: src";
-}
-
-$dest= Get-Attr $params "dest" $FALSE;
-If ($dest -eq $FALSE)
-{
-    Fail-Json (New-Object psobject) "missing required argument: dest";
-}
-
-# seems to be supplied by the calling environment, but
-# probably shouldn't be a test for it existing in the params.
-# TODO investigate.
-$original_basename = Get-Attr $params "original_basename" $FALSE;
-If ($original_basename -eq $FALSE)
-{
-    Fail-Json (New-Object psobject) "missing required argument: original_basename ";
-}
-
-$result = New-Object psobject @{
-    changed = $FALSE
-};
-
-# if $dest is a dir, append $original_basename so the file gets copied with its intended name.
-if (Test-Path $dest -PathType Container)
-{
-    $dest = Join-Path $dest $original_basename;
-}
-
-If (Test-Path $dest)
-{
-    $dest_checksum = Get-FileChecksum ($dest);
-    $src_checksum = Get-FileChecksum ($src);
-
-    If (! $src_checksum.CompareTo($dest_checksum))
-    {
-        # New-Item -Force creates subdirs for recursive copies
-        New-Item -Force $dest -Type file;
-        Copy-Item -Path $src -Destination $dest -Force;
-    }
-    $dest_checksum = Get-FileChecksum ($dest);
-    If ( $src_checksum.CompareTo($dest_checksum))
-    {
-        $result.changed = $TRUE;
-    }
-    Else
-    {
-        Fail-Json (New-Object psobject) "Failed to place file";
-    }
-}
-Else
-{
-    New-Item -Force $dest -Type file;
-    Copy-Item -Path $src -Destination $dest;
-    $result.changed = $TRUE;
-}
-
-$dest_checksum = Get-FileChecksum($dest);
-$result.checksum = $dest_checksum;
-
-Exit-Json $result;
diff --git a/windows/win_copy.py b/windows/win_copy.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d0b49e5985..00000000000
--- a/windows/win_copy.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-# (c) 2012, Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
-#
-# This file is part of Ansible
-#
-# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-import os
-import time
-
-DOCUMENTATION = '''
----
-module: win_copy
-version_added: "1.8"
-short_description: Copies files to remote locations on windows hosts.
-description:
-     - The M(win_copy) module copies a file on the local box to remote windows locations.
-options:
-  src:
-    description:
-      - Local path to a file to copy to the remote server; can be absolute or relative.
-        If path is a directory, it is copied recursively. In this case, if path ends
-        with "/", only inside contents of that directory are copied to destination.
-        Otherwise, if it does not end with "/", the directory itself with all contents
-        is copied. This behavior is similar to Rsync.
-    required: false
-    default: null
-    aliases: []
-  dest:
-    description:
-      - Remote absolute path where the file should be copied to. If src is a directory,
-        this must be a directory too. Use \\ for path separators.
-    required: true
-    default: null
-author: Michael DeHaan
-notes:
-   - The "win_copy" module recursively copy facility does not scale to lots (>hundreds) of files.
-     Instead, you may find it better to create files locally, perhaps using win_template, and 
-     then use win_get_url to put them in the correct location.
-'''
-
-EXAMPLES = '''
-# Example from Ansible Playbooks
-- win_copy: src=/srv/myfiles/foo.conf dest=c:\\TEMP\\foo.conf
-
-'''
-
diff --git a/windows/win_file.ps1 b/windows/win_file.ps1
deleted file mode 100644
index 62ac81fc1ee..00000000000
--- a/windows/win_file.ps1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,105 +0,0 @@
-#!powershell
-# This file is part of Ansible
-#
-# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-# WANT_JSON
-# POWERSHELL_COMMON
-
-$params = Parse-Args $args;
-
-# path
-$path = Get-Attr $params "path" $FALSE;
-If ($path -eq $FALSE)
-{
-    $path = Get-Attr $params "dest" $FALSE;
-    If ($path -eq $FALSE)
-    {
-        $path = Get-Attr $params "name" $FALSE;
-        If ($path -eq $FALSE)
-        {
-            Fail-Json (New-Object psobject) "missing required argument: path";
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-# JH Following advice from Chris Church, only allow the following states
-# in the windows version for now:
-# state - file, directory, touch, absent
-# (originally was: state - file, link, directory, hard, touch, absent)
-
-$state = Get-Attr $params "state" "file";
-
-#$recurse = Get-Attr $params "recurse" "no";
-
-# force - yes, no
-# $force = Get-Attr $params "force" "no";
-
-# result
-$result = New-Object psobject @{
-    changed = $FALSE
-};
-
-If ( $state -eq "touch" )
-{
-    If(Test-Path $path)
-    {
-        (Get-ChildItem $path).LastWriteTime = Get-Date
-    }
-    Else
-    {
-        echo $null > $file
-    }
-    $result.changed = $TRUE;
-}
-
-If (Test-Path $path)
-{
-    $fileinfo = Get-Item $path;
-    If ( $state -eq "absent" )
-    {   
-        Remove-Item -Recurse -Force $fileinfo;
-        $result.changed = $TRUE;
-    }
-    Else
-    {
-        # Only files have the .Directory attribute.
-        If ( $state -eq "directory" -and $fileinfo.Directory )
-        {
-            Fail-Json (New-Object psobject) "path is not a directory";
-        }
-
-        # Only files have the .Directory attribute.
-        If ( $state -eq "file" -and -not $fileinfo.Directory )
-        {
-            Fail-Json (New-Object psobject) "path is not a file";
-        }
-
-    }
-}
-Else
-{
-    If ( $state -eq "directory" )
-    {
-        New-Item -ItemType directory -Path $path
-        $result.changed = $TRUE;
-    }
-
-    If ( $state -eq "file" )
-    {
-        Fail-Json (New-Object psobject) "path will not be created";
-    }
-}
-
-Exit-Json $result;
diff --git a/windows/win_file.py b/windows/win_file.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 6a218216617..00000000000
--- a/windows/win_file.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-# (c) 2012, Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
-#
-# This file is part of Ansible
-#
-# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-
-DOCUMENTATION = '''
----
-module: win_file
-version_added: "1.8"
-short_description: Creates, touches or removes files or directories.
-extends_documentation_fragment: files
-description:
-     - Creates (empty) files, updates file modification stamps of existing files,
-       and can create or remove directories.
-       Unlike M(file), does not modify ownership, permissions or manipulate links.
-notes:
-    - See also M(win_copy), M(win_template), M(copy), M(template), M(assemble)
-requirements: [ ]
-author: Michael DeHaan
-options:
-  path:
-    description:
-      - 'path to the file being managed.  Aliases: I(dest), I(name)'
-    required: true
-    default: []
-    aliases: ['dest', 'name']
-  state:
-    description:
-      - If C(directory), all immediate subdirectories will be created if they
-        do not exist.
-        If C(file), the file will NOT be created if it does not exist, see the M(copy)
-        or M(template) module if you want that behavior.  If C(absent),
-        directories will be recursively deleted, and files will be removed.
-        If C(touch), an empty file will be created if the c(path) does not
-        exist, while an existing file or directory will receive updated file access and
-        modification times (similar to the way `touch` works from the command line).
-    required: false
-    default: file
-    choices: [ file, directory, touch, absent ]
-'''
-
-EXAMPLES = '''
-# create a file
-- win_file: path=C:\\temp\\foo.conf 
-
-# touch a file (creates if not present, updates modification time if present)
-- win_file: path=C:\\temp\\foo.conf state=touch 
-
-# remove a file, if present
-- win_file: path=C:\\temp\\foo.conf state=absent
-
-# create directory structure
-- win_file: path=C:\\temp\\folder\\subfolder state=directory
-
-# remove directory structure
-- win_file: path=C:\\temp state=absent
-'''
diff --git a/windows/win_stat.ps1 b/windows/win_stat.ps1
index 10101a62b30..4e4c55b2aa3 100644
--- a/windows/win_stat.ps1
+++ b/windows/win_stat.ps1
@@ -53,9 +53,11 @@ Else
 
 If ($get_md5 -and $result.stat.exists -and -not $result.stat.isdir)
 {
-    $hash = Get-FileChecksum($path);
+    $sp = new-object -TypeName System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider;
+    $fp = [System.IO.File]::Open($path, [System.IO.Filemode]::Open, [System.IO.FileAccess]::Read);
+    $hash = [System.BitConverter]::ToString($sp.ComputeHash($fp)).Replace("-", "").ToLower();
+    $fp.Dispose();
     Set-Attr $result.stat "md5" $hash;
-    Set-Attr $result.stat "checksum" $hash;
 }
 
 Exit-Json $result;
diff --git a/windows/win_template.py b/windows/win_template.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 402702f93b2..00000000000
--- a/windows/win_template.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-# this is a virtual module that is entirely implemented server side
-
-DOCUMENTATION = '''
----
-module: win_template
-version_added: 1.8
-short_description: Templates a file out to a remote server.
-description:
-     - Templates are processed by the Jinja2 templating language
-       (U(http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/)) - documentation on the template
-       formatting can be found in the Template Designer Documentation
-       (U(http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/templates/)).
-     - "Six additional variables can be used in templates: C(ansible_managed) 
-       (configurable via the C(defaults) section of C(ansible.cfg)) contains a string
-       which can be used to describe the template name, host, modification time of the
-       template file and the owner uid, C(template_host) contains the node name of 
-       the template's machine, C(template_uid) the owner, C(template_path) the
-       absolute path of the template, C(template_fullpath) is the absolute path of the 
-       template, and C(template_run_date) is the date that the template was rendered. Note that including
-       a string that uses a date in the template will result in the template being marked 'changed'
-       each time."
-options:
-  src:
-    description:
-      - Path of a Jinja2 formatted template on the local server. This can be a relative or absolute path.
-    required: true
-    default: null
-    aliases: []
-  dest:
-    description:
-      - Location to render the template to on the remote machine.
-    required: true
-    default: null
-  backup:
-    description:
-      - Create a backup file including the timestamp information so you can get
-        the original file back if you somehow clobbered it incorrectly.
-    required: false
-    choices: [ "yes", "no" ]
-    default: "no"
-notes:
-  - "templates are loaded with C(trim_blocks=True)."
-requirements: []
-author: Michael DeHaan
-'''
-
-EXAMPLES = '''
-# Example 
-- win_template: src=/mytemplates/foo.j2 dest=C:\\temp\\file.conf 
-
-
-'''