diff --git a/electron/src/squirrelhooks.js b/electron/src/squirrelhooks.js
index 295ef5cfda..ca0983b66e 100644
--- a/electron/src/squirrelhooks.js
+++ b/electron/src/squirrelhooks.js
@@ -3,7 +3,12 @@ const spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
 const app = require('electron').app;
 
 function run_update_exe(args, done) {
-    const updateExe = path.resolve(path.dirname(process.execPath), 'Update.exe');
+    // Invokes Squirrel's Update.exe which will do things for us like create shortcuts
+    // Note that there's an Update.exe in the app-x.x.x directory and one in the parent
+    // directory: we need to run the one in the parent directory, because it discovers
+    // information about the app by inspecting the directory it's run from.
+    const updateExe = path.resolve(path.dirname(process.execPath), '..', 'Update.exe');
+    console.log('Spawning `%s` with args `%s`', updateExe, args);
     spawn(updateExe, args, {
       detached: true
     }).on('close', done);
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 59dfe1e8dd..fd7c3b12ee 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -94,7 +94,8 @@
     "chokidar": "^1.6.1",
     "cpx": "^1.3.2",
     "css-raw-loader": "^0.1.1",
-    "electron-builder": "^10.4.1",
+    "electron-builder": "^11.2.4",
+    "electron-builder-squirrel-windows": "^11.2.1",
     "emojione": "^2.2.3",
     "expect": "^1.16.0",
     "fs-extra": "^0.30.0",