diff --git a/tests/auto/widgets/qwebenginedownloaditem/BLACKLIST b/tests/auto/widgets/qwebenginedownloaditem/BLACKLIST
deleted file mode 100644
index a51117ae00808e13f49cbcc61f4a6f3af51e5645..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/tests/auto/widgets/qwebenginedownloaditem/BLACKLIST
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-[downloadToReadOnlyDir]
-windows
diff --git a/tests/auto/widgets/qwebenginedownloaditem/tst_qwebenginedownloaditem.cpp b/tests/auto/widgets/qwebenginedownloaditem/tst_qwebenginedownloaditem.cpp
index c41315cd7d00f7474f3730926d82b200fbc871ea..3a38c115d86b29da92f69eb48c996cd0e57ae48f 100644
--- a/tests/auto/widgets/qwebenginedownloaditem/tst_qwebenginedownloaditem.cpp
+++ b/tests/auto/widgets/qwebenginedownloaditem/tst_qwebenginedownloaditem.cpp
@@ -1059,6 +1059,9 @@ void tst_QWebEngineDownloadItem::downloadToNonExistentDir()
 
 void tst_QWebEngineDownloadItem::downloadToReadOnlyDir()
 {
+#ifdef Q_OS_WIN
+    QSKIP("Cannot change file permissions on Windows.");
+#endif
     QString baseName("test(1.test)");
     QString extension("txt");
     QString fileName = QString("%1.%2").arg(baseName).arg(extension);