diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index b86e03b42af..6dd2399844c 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2012-11-15  Daniel Colascione  <dancol@dancol.org>
+
+	* term/w32-win.el (w32-handle-dropped-file): Use a "file://"
+	prefix instead of "file:" so that when FILE-NAME begins with "//",
+	as it does when the target file is on a network share, url-handler
+	isn't confused.
+
 2012-11-15  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
 
 	* emacs-lisp/advice.el (ad-definition-type): Make sure we don't use
diff --git a/lisp/term/w32-win.el b/lisp/term/w32-win.el
index ad6e1125027..224fb7c1442 100644
--- a/lisp/term/w32-win.el
+++ b/lisp/term/w32-win.el
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
                                    "/")
                      "/")))
 		(dnd-handle-one-url window 'private
-				    (concat "file:" file-name)))
+				    (concat "file://" file-name)))
 
 (defun w32-drag-n-drop (event &optional new-frame)
   "Edit the files listed in the drag-n-drop EVENT.