diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index e33abb877..a17610b24 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -566,7 +566,22 @@ endif(${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Darwin")
     # Salome SMESH sources are under src/3rdParty now
     IF(BUILD_SMESH)
         #if we use smesh we definitly also need vtk, no matter of external or internal smesh
-        find_package(VTK COMPONENTS vtkCommonCore vtkCommonDataModel vtkFiltersVerdict vtkIOXML vtkFiltersCore vtkFiltersGeneral vtkIOLegacy vtkFiltersExtraction vtkFiltersSources vtkFiltersGeometry vtkParallelMPI REQUIRED) #don't check VERSION 6 as this would exclude version 7
+        find_package(VTK COMPONENTS
+                     vtkCommonCore
+                     vtkCommonDataModel
+                     vtkFiltersVerdict
+                     vtkIOXML
+                     vtkFiltersCore
+                     vtkFiltersGeneral
+                     vtkIOLegacy
+                     vtkFiltersExtraction
+                     vtkFiltersSources
+                     vtkFiltersGeometry REQUIRED) #don't check VERSION 6 as this would exclude version 7
+        # On Windows there might be no vtkParallelMPI package
+        if (NOT WIN32)
+            find_package(VTK COMPONENTS
+                         vtkParallelMPI REQUIRED)
+        endif()
         set(BUILD_FEM_VTK ON)
         if(${VTK_MAJOR_VERSION} LESS 6)
             message( FATAL_ERROR "Found VTK version is <6, this is not compatible" )