diff --git a/include/boost/config.hpp b/include/boost/config.hpp
index 1c6271ee..59fc15e8 100644
--- a/include/boost/config.hpp
+++ b/include/boost/config.hpp
@@ -257,6 +257,11 @@
 
 # elif defined _MSC_VER
 #   define BOOST_MSVC _MSC_VER
+
+    // turn off the warnings before we #include anything
+#   pragma warning( disable : 4786 ) // ident trunc to '255' chars in debug info
+#   pragma warning( disable : 4503 ) // warning: decorated name length exceeded
+
 #   if _MSC_VER <= 1200  // 1200 == VC++ 6.0
 #     define BOOST_NO_INCLASS_MEMBER_INITIALIZATION
 #     define BOOST_NO_PRIVATE_IN_AGGREGATE
@@ -307,9 +312,6 @@
 #     define BOOST_DECL __declspec(dllimport)
 #   endif
 
-#   pragma warning( disable : 4786 ) // ident trunc to '255' chars in debug info
-#   pragma warning( disable : 4503 ) // warning: decorated name length exceeded
-
 # endif // Microsoft (excluding Intel/EDG frontend) 
 
 # ifndef BOOST_DECL