diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 134fcf57f5699..ef965185b328d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -13,3 +13,4 @@
 *~
 *.swp
 *.swo
+logpipe*.lnk
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/mingw-w64-gtk3/PKGBUILD b/mingw-w64-gtk3/PKGBUILD
index f6e70d49ef5e9..8acc0e4b18801 100644
--- a/mingw-w64-gtk3/PKGBUILD
+++ b/mingw-w64-gtk3/PKGBUILD
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 _realname=gtk3
 pkgbase=mingw-w64-${_realname}
 pkgname="${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-${_realname}"
-pkgver=3.22.10
+pkgver=3.18.9
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="GObject-based multi-platform GUI toolkit (v3) (mingw-w64)"
 arch=('any')
@@ -28,13 +28,15 @@ depends=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-gcc-libs"
          "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-pango"
          "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-shared-mime-info")
 options=('strip' '!debug' 'staticlibs')
-source=("https://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk+/${pkgver%.*}/gtk+-${pkgver}.tar.xz")
-sha256sums=('352a90b3d09256d597cb2768ee5d685285ccc284ff22adf19df16753a829c554')
+source=("http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/${pkgver%.*}/gtk+-${pkgver}.tar.xz"
+        "placesview.patch")
+md5sums=('c7a5b21d28572bb1d6fc8803864618c0'
+         50a397801a668303f5ad3da316a15e09)
 
 prepare() {
   cd "${srcdir}/gtk+-${pkgver}"
-
-  autoreconf -i
+  patch -Np0 -i "${srcdir}"/placesview.patch
+  #autoreconf -i
 }
 
 build() {
diff --git a/mingw-w64-gtk3/placesview.patch b/mingw-w64-gtk3/placesview.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..93590726df1b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mingw-w64-gtk3/placesview.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+--- gtk/gtkplacesview.c.orig	2016-01-07 04:25:56.000000000 +0100
++++ gtk/gtkplacesview.c	2016-11-14 20:29:42.114362700 +0100
+@@ -1119,9 +1119,11 @@
+   populate_servers (view);
+ 
+   /* fetch networks and add them asynchronously */
++/* is this relevant for windows? fetch_networks use nautilus network:/// */
++#ifndef G_OS_WIN32
+   if (!gtk_places_view_get_local_only (view))
+     fetch_networks (view);
+-
++#endif
+   update_view_mode (view);
+   /* Check whether we still are in a loading state */
+   update_loading (view);