diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
index b8adac888..2f834f196 100644
--- a/doc/Changelog
+++ b/doc/Changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+1 December 2015: Wouter
+	- Fixup 724 fix for fname_after_chroot() calls.
+
 30 November 2015: Ralph
 	- Implemented qname minimisation
 
diff --git a/winrc/win_svc.c b/winrc/win_svc.c
index 24a4ce7eb..09b78adbc 100644
--- a/winrc/win_svc.c
+++ b/winrc/win_svc.c
@@ -346,6 +346,12 @@ service_init(int r, struct daemon** d, struct config_file** c)
 				(strrchr(dirbuf, '\\'))[0] = 0;
 			} else log_err("GetModuleFileName had no path");
 			dir = dirbuf;
+			if(dirbuf[0]) {
+				/* adjust cfg->directory for the 
+				 * fname_after_chroot calls later to work */
+				free(cfg->directory);
+				cfg->directory = memdup(dir, strlen(dir)+1);
+			}
 		}
 		if(chdir(dir)) {
 			log_err("could not chdir to %s: %s",