diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 221c5280a7..3ebe1688e2 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -5852,7 +5852,6 @@ version = "1.0.0-dev"
 dependencies = [
  "async-trait",
  "crc",
- "futures",
  "libc",
  "lockfree",
  "num-traits",
diff --git a/commons/zenoh-shm/Cargo.toml b/commons/zenoh-shm/Cargo.toml
index ba219bc034..c5b2a0a628 100644
--- a/commons/zenoh-shm/Cargo.toml
+++ b/commons/zenoh-shm/Cargo.toml
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ thread-priority = { workspace = true }
 lockfree = { workspace = true }
 stabby = { workspace = true }
 signal-hook = { workspace = true }
-futures = { workspace = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 libc = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/commons/zenoh-shm/src/cleanup.rs b/commons/zenoh-shm/src/cleanup.rs
index c86106107f..0b22d2b1c2 100644
--- a/commons/zenoh-shm/src/cleanup.rs
+++ b/commons/zenoh-shm/src/cleanup.rs
@@ -29,7 +29,13 @@ impl Cleanup {
     fn new() -> Self {
         // todo: this is a workaround to make sure Cleanup will be executed even if process terminates via signal handlers
         // that execute std::terminate instead of exit
-        for signal in [SIGHUP, SIGTERM, SIGINT, SIGQUIT] {
+        for signal in [
+            SIGHUP,
+            SIGTERM,
+            SIGINT,
+            #[cfg(not(target_os = "windows"))]
+            SIGQUIT,
+        ] {
             unsafe {
                 let _ = signal_hook::low_level::register(signal, || {
                     std::process::exit(0);