diff --git a/toolkit.nu b/toolkit.nu
index a0d7adc307..98fcd4400b 100644
--- a/toolkit.nu
+++ b/toolkit.nu
@@ -491,4 +491,46 @@ export def cov [] {
     print $"Coverage generation took ($end - $start)."
 }
 
+# Build all Windows archives and MSIs for release manually
+#
+# This builds std and full distributions for both aarch64 and x86_64.
+#
+# You need to have the cross-compilers for MSVC installed (see Visual Studio).
+# If compiling on x86_64, you need ARM64 compilers and libs too, and vice versa.
+export def 'release-pkg windows' [
+    --artifacts-dir="artifacts" # Where to copy the final msi and zip files to
+] {
+    $env.RUSTFLAGS = ""
+    $env.CARGO_TARGET_DIR = ""
+    hide-env RUSTFLAGS
+    hide-env CARGO_TARGET_DIR
+    $env.OS = "windows-latest"
+    $env.GITHUB_WORKSPACE = ("." | path expand)
+    $env.GITHUB_OUTPUT = ("./output/out.txt" | path expand)
+    let version = (open Cargo.toml | get package.version)
+    mkdir $artifacts_dir
+    for target in ["aarch64" "x86_64"] {
+        $env.TARGET = $target ++ "-pc-windows-msvc"
+        for release_type in ["" full] {
+            $env.RELEASE_TYPE = $release_type
+            $env.TARGET_RUSTFLAGS = if $release_type == "full" {
+                "--features=dataframe"
+            } else {
+                ""
+            }
+            let out_filename = if $release_type == "full" {
+                $target ++ "-windows-msvc-full"
+            } else {
+                $target ++ "-pc-windows-msvc"
+            }
+            rm -rf output
+            _EXTRA_=bin nu .github/workflows/release-pkg.nu
+            cp $"output/nu-($version)-($out_filename).zip" $artifacts_dir
+            rm -rf output
+            _EXTRA_=msi nu .github/workflows/release-pkg.nu
+            cp $"target/wix/nu-($version)-($out_filename).msi" $artifacts_dir
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 export def main [] { help toolkit }