diff --git a/src/Utils.py b/src/Utils.py
index 5e234a200..1e4cfc014 100644
--- a/src/Utils.py
+++ b/src/Utils.py
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ def encodingdefs():
     """
     pass
 
-if platform in WINDOWS:
+if platform.system() in WINDOWS:
     # python encoding is ascii, but C functions need to recieve the 
     # windows codeset, so convert over to it
     conv_utf8_tosrtkey = lambda x: locale.strxfrm(x.decode("utf-8").encode(
diff --git a/src/gui/views/treemodels/flatbasemodel.py b/src/gui/views/treemodels/flatbasemodel.py
index 269f13fa8..a3fdeb3f4 100644
--- a/src/gui/views/treemodels/flatbasemodel.py
+++ b/src/gui/views/treemodels/flatbasemodel.py
@@ -450,7 +450,6 @@ class FlatBaseModel(gtk.GenericTreeModel):
         """
         Total number of items that maximally can be shown
         """
-        print 'total asked', self.node_map.max_rows()
         return self.node_map.max_rows()
 
     def displayed(self):