diff --git a/dll/win32/shell32/CDefView.cpp b/dll/win32/shell32/CDefView.cpp
index 708ce00e060d0..73d0f657f7c65 100644
--- a/dll/win32/shell32/CDefView.cpp
+++ b/dll/win32/shell32/CDefView.cpp
@@ -2618,7 +2618,7 @@ HRESULT WINAPI CDefView::DestroyViewWindow()
     {
         HANDLE hOldThread = m_hUpdateStatusbarThread;
 
-        // Assigning NULL to m_hUpdateStatusbarThread will terminate the target thread immediately
+        // Assigning NULL to m_hUpdateStatusbarThread will terminate the target thread
         m_hUpdateStatusbarThread = NULL;
         ::WaitForSingleObject(hOldThread, INFINITE);