diff --git a/docs/guide.md b/docs/guide.md
index 560e998f..ec26f112 100644
--- a/docs/guide.md
+++ b/docs/guide.md
@@ -791,8 +791,4 @@ There are two known workarounds:
 1. Tell curl to ignore certificate errors (dangerous): `curl -k https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haskell/ghcup-hs/master/scripts/bootstrap/bootstrap-haskell | GHCUP_CURL_OPTS="-k" sh`
 2. Try to use wget instead: `wget -O /dev/stdout https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haskell/ghcup-hs/master/scripts/bootstrap/bootstrap-haskell | BOOTSTRAP_HASKELL_DOWNLOADER=wget sh`
 
-On windows, you can disable curl like so:
-
-```pwsh
-Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force;[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072;try { Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock ([ScriptBlock]::Create((Invoke-WebRequest https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/sh/bootstrap-haskell.ps1 -UseBasicParsing))) -ArgumentList $true,$false,$false,$false,$false,$false,$false,"","","","",$true } catch { Write-Error $_ }
-```
+On windows by default curl is disabled.
diff --git a/scripts/bootstrap/bootstrap-haskell.ps1 b/scripts/bootstrap/bootstrap-haskell.ps1
index c300b74e..0231f8f1 100644
--- a/scripts/bootstrap/bootstrap-haskell.ps1
+++ b/scripts/bootstrap/bootstrap-haskell.ps1
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ param (
     [string]$ExistingMsys2Dir,
     # Specify the cabal root directory (default: '$InstallDir\cabal')
     [string]$CabalDir,
-    # Whether to disable use of curl.exe
-    [switch]$DisableCurl,
+    # Whether to use curl.exe (default: false)
+    [switch]$UseCurl,
     # The Msys2 version to download (e.g. 20221216)
     [string]$Msys2Version,
     # The Msys2 sha256sum hash
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ if (!(Test-Path -Path ('{0}' -f $MsysDir))) {
     $msysUrl = ('https://downloads.haskell.org/ghcup/msys2/{0}' -f "$archive")
     $archivePath = ('{0}\{1}' -f ([IO.Path]::GetTempPath()), "$archive")
 
-    if ((Get-Command -Name 'curl.exe' -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -and !($DisableCurl)) {
+    if (($UseCurl) -and (Get-Command -Name 'curl.exe' -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {
       Exec "curl.exe" '-o' "$archivePath" "$msysUrl"
     } else {
       Get-FileWCSynchronous -url "$msysUrl" -destinationFolder ([IO.Path]::GetTempPath()) -includeStats
@@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ if ($Minimal) {
   $MinimalExport = 'export BOOTSTRAP_HASKELL_MINIMAL=1 ;'
 }
 
-if ($DisableCurl) {
+if (!($UseCurl)) {
   $BootstrapDownloader = 'export BOOTSTRAP_HASKELL_DOWNLOADER=wget ;'
   $DownloadScript = 'wget -O /dev/stdout'
 } else {