diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 00366df5..03e557e9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ dependencies = [
     "pyyaml>=5.3.1",
     "requests>=2.23.0",
     "scipy>=1.4.1",
-    "torch>=1.8.0,<2.4.0; sys_platform == 'win32'",  # Windows CPU errors https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/issues/15049
     "torch>=1.8.0",
+    "torch>=1.8.0,!=2.4.0; sys_platform == 'win32'",  # Windows CPU errors w/ 2.4.0 https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/issues/15049
     "torchvision>=0.9.0",
     "tqdm>=4.64.0", # progress bars
     "psutil", # system utilization
diff --git a/ultralytics/utils/torch_utils.py b/ultralytics/utils/torch_utils.py
index 16bcddad..7cde9dc7 100644
--- a/ultralytics/utils/torch_utils.py
+++ b/ultralytics/utils/torch_utils.py
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ TORCHVISION_0_10 = check_version(TORCHVISION_VERSION, "0.10.0")
 TORCHVISION_0_11 = check_version(TORCHVISION_VERSION, "0.11.0")
 TORCHVISION_0_13 = check_version(TORCHVISION_VERSION, "0.13.0")
 TORCHVISION_0_18 = check_version(TORCHVISION_VERSION, "0.18.0")
-if WINDOWS and torch.__version__[:3] == "2.4":  # reject all versions of 2.4 on Windows
+if WINDOWS and check_version(torch.__version__, "==2.4.0"):  # reject version 2.4.0 on Windows
     LOGGER.warning(
-        "WARNING ⚠️ Known issue with torch>=2.4.0 on Windows with CPU, recommend downgrading to torch<=2.3.1 to resolve "
+        "WARNING ⚠️ Known issue with torch==2.4.0 on Windows with CPU, recommend upgrading to torch>=2.4.1 to resolve "
         "https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/issues/15049"
     )