diff --git a/include/boost/regex/config.hpp b/include/boost/regex/config.hpp
index a347bd34f..4fd1fd94a 100644
--- a/include/boost/regex/config.hpp
+++ b/include/boost/regex/config.hpp
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 #  include BOOST_REGEX_USER_CONFIG
 
 #  include <boost/config.hpp>
+#  include <boost/predef.h>
 
 #else
    /*
@@ -147,8 +148,14 @@
 
 /* disable our own file-iterators and mapfiles if we can't
  * support them: */
-#if !defined(BOOST_HAS_DIRENT_H) && !(defined(_WIN32) && !defined(BOOST_REGEX_NO_W32))
-#  define BOOST_REGEX_NO_FILEITER
+#if defined(_WIN32)
+#  if defined(BOOST_REGEX_NO_W32) || BOOST_PLAT_WINDOWS_STORE
+#    define BOOST_REGEX_NO_FILEITER
+#  endif
+#else // defined(_WIN32)
+#  if !defined(BOOST_HAS_DIRENT_H)
+#    define BOOST_REGEX_NO_FILEITER
+#  endif
 #endif
 
 /* backwards compatibitity: */
@@ -177,10 +184,20 @@
  * with MSVC and the /Zc:wchar_t option we place some extra unsigned short versions
  * of the non-inline functions in the library, so that users can still link to the lib,
  * irrespective of whether their own code is built with /Zc:wchar_t.
- * Note that this does NOT WORK with VC10 when the C++ locale is in effect as
+ * Note that this does NOT WORK with VC10 and VC14 when the C++ locale is in effect as
  * the locale's <unsigned short> facets simply do not compile in that case.
+ * As we default to the C++ locale when compiling for the windows runtime we
+ * skip in this case aswell.
  */
-#if defined(__cplusplus) && (defined(BOOST_MSVC) || defined(__ICL)) && !defined(BOOST_NO_INTRINSIC_WCHAR_T) && defined(BOOST_WINDOWS) && !defined(__SGI_STL_PORT) && !defined(_STLPORT_VERSION) && !defined(BOOST_RWSTD_VER) && ((_MSC_VER < 1600) || !defined(BOOST_REGEX_USE_CPP_LOCALE))
+#if defined(__cplusplus) && \
+      (defined(BOOST_MSVC) || defined(__ICL)) && \
+      !defined(BOOST_NO_INTRINSIC_WCHAR_T) && \
+      defined(BOOST_WINDOWS) && \
+      !defined(__SGI_STL_PORT) && \
+      !defined(_STLPORT_VERSION) && \
+      !defined(BOOST_RWSTD_VER) && \
+      ((_MSC_VER < 1600) || !defined(BOOST_REGEX_USE_CPP_LOCALE)) && \
+      !BOOST_PLAT_WINDOWS_RUNTIME
 #  define BOOST_REGEX_HAS_OTHER_WCHAR_T
 #  ifdef BOOST_MSVC
 #     pragma warning(push)
@@ -278,8 +295,19 @@
 #  define BOOST_REGEX_USE_C_LOCALE
 #endif
 
+/* use C++ locale when targeting windows store */
+#if BOOST_PLAT_WINDOWS_RUNTIME
+#  define BOOST_REGEX_USE_CPP_LOCALE
+#  define BOOST_REGEX_NO_WIN32_LOCALE
+#endif
+
 /* Win32 defaults to native Win32 locale: */
-#if defined(_WIN32) && !defined(BOOST_REGEX_USE_WIN32_LOCALE) && !defined(BOOST_REGEX_USE_C_LOCALE) && !defined(BOOST_REGEX_USE_CPP_LOCALE) && !defined(BOOST_REGEX_NO_W32)
+#if defined(_WIN32) && \
+    !defined(BOOST_REGEX_USE_WIN32_LOCALE) && \
+    !defined(BOOST_REGEX_USE_C_LOCALE) && \
+    !defined(BOOST_REGEX_USE_CPP_LOCALE) && \
+    !defined(BOOST_REGEX_NO_W32) && \
+    !defined(BOOST_REGEX_NO_WIN32_LOCALE)
 #  define BOOST_REGEX_USE_WIN32_LOCALE
 #endif
 /* otherwise use C++ locale if supported: */
diff --git a/include/boost/regex/v4/w32_regex_traits.hpp b/include/boost/regex/v4/w32_regex_traits.hpp
index 4a7995265..560cc217b 100644
--- a/include/boost/regex/v4/w32_regex_traits.hpp
+++ b/include/boost/regex/v4/w32_regex_traits.hpp
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
 #ifndef BOOST_W32_REGEX_TRAITS_HPP_INCLUDED
 #define BOOST_W32_REGEX_TRAITS_HPP_INCLUDED
 
+#ifndef BOOST_REGEX_NO_WIN32_LOCALE
+
 #ifndef BOOST_RE_PAT_EXCEPT_HPP
 #include <boost/regex/pattern_except.hpp>
 #endif
@@ -736,4 +738,6 @@ static_mutex& w32_regex_traits<charT>::get_mutex_inst()
 #pragma warning(pop)
 #endif
 
+#endif // BOOST_REGEX_NO_WIN32_LOCALE
+
 #endif
diff --git a/src/w32_regex_traits.cpp b/src/w32_regex_traits.cpp
index fdf93052b..0f8257024 100644
--- a/src/w32_regex_traits.cpp
+++ b/src/w32_regex_traits.cpp
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 #define BOOST_REGEX_SOURCE
 #include <boost/regex/config.hpp>
 
-#if defined(_WIN32) && !defined(BOOST_REGEX_NO_W32)
+#if defined(_WIN32) && !defined(BOOST_REGEX_NO_W32) && !defined(BOOST_REGEX_NO_WIN32_LOCALE)
 #include <boost/regex/regex_traits.hpp>
 #include <boost/regex/pattern_except.hpp>