diff --git a/arch/AArch64/AArch64BaseInfo.c b/arch/AArch64/AArch64BaseInfo.c
index 26eb786a..5afb9249 100644
--- a/arch/AArch64/AArch64BaseInfo.c
+++ b/arch/AArch64/AArch64BaseInfo.c
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
 #ifdef CAPSTONE_HAS_ARM64
 
 #if defined (WIN32) || defined (WIN64) || defined (_WIN32) || defined (_WIN64)
-#pragma warning(disable:4996)
+#pragma warning(disable:4996)			// disable MSVC's warning on strcpy()
+#pragma warning(disable:28719)		// disable MSVC's warning on strcpy()
 #endif
 
 #include "../../utils.h"
diff --git a/arch/Sparc/SparcInstPrinter.c b/arch/Sparc/SparcInstPrinter.c
index c5f1e2c2..ff92c04f 100644
--- a/arch/Sparc/SparcInstPrinter.c
+++ b/arch/Sparc/SparcInstPrinter.c
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@
 #define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
 #endif
 
+#if defined (WIN32) || defined (WIN64) || defined (_WIN32) || defined (_WIN64)
+#pragma warning(disable:28719)		// disable MSVC's warning on strncpy()
+#endif
+
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
diff --git a/arch/XCore/XCoreInstPrinter.c b/arch/XCore/XCoreInstPrinter.c
index c050c581..c9aec945 100644
--- a/arch/XCore/XCoreInstPrinter.c
+++ b/arch/XCore/XCoreInstPrinter.c
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@
 
 #ifdef CAPSTONE_HAS_XCORE
 
+#if defined (WIN32) || defined (WIN64) || defined (_WIN32) || defined (_WIN64)
+#pragma warning(disable : 4996)			// disable MSVC's warning on strcpy()
+#pragma warning(disable : 28719)		// disable MSVC's warning on strcpy()
+#endif
+
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
@@ -46,15 +51,7 @@ void XCore_insn_extract(MCInst *MI, const char *code)
 	char *p, *p2;
 	char tmp[128];
 
-// make MSVC shut up on strcpy()
-#ifdef _MSC_VER
-#pragma warning(push)
-#pragma warning(disable : 4996)
-#endif
 	strcpy(tmp, code); // safe because code is way shorter than 128 bytes
-#ifdef _MSC_VER
-#pragma warning(pop)
-#endif
 
 	// find the first space
 	p = strchr(tmp, ' ');
diff --git a/cs.c b/cs.c
index c3becd8c..30839051 100644
--- a/cs.c
+++ b/cs.c
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 /* Capstone Disassembly Engine */
 /* By Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@gmail.com>, 2013-2015 */
 #if defined (WIN32) || defined (WIN64) || defined (_WIN32) || defined (_WIN64)
-#pragma warning(disable:4996)
+#pragma warning(disable:4996)			// disable MSVC's warning on strcpy()
+#pragma warning(disable:28719)		// disable MSVC's warning on strcpy()
 #endif
 #if defined(CAPSTONE_HAS_OSXKERNEL)
 #include <libkern/libkern.h>
diff --git a/windows/winkernel_mm.c b/windows/winkernel_mm.c
index 6052be28..c127da3a 100644
--- a/windows/winkernel_mm.c
+++ b/windows/winkernel_mm.c
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ void * CAPSTONE_API cs_winkernel_malloc(size_t size)
 	// in many cases, indicate a potential validation issue in the calling code.
 	NT_ASSERT(size);
 
+	// FP; a use of NonPagedPool is required for Windows 7 support
+#pragma prefast(suppress : 30030)		// Allocating executable POOL_TYPE memory
 	CS_WINKERNEL_MEMBLOCK *block = (CS_WINKERNEL_MEMBLOCK *)ExAllocatePoolWithTag(
 			NonPagedPool, size + sizeof(CS_WINKERNEL_MEMBLOCK), CS_WINKERNEL_POOL_TAG);
 	if (!block) {