diff --git a/IPython/parallel/apps/winhpcjob.py b/IPython/parallel/apps/winhpcjob.py
index 92f8603..bdd9727 100644
--- a/IPython/parallel/apps/winhpcjob.py
+++ b/IPython/parallel/apps/winhpcjob.py
@@ -264,8 +264,8 @@ class IPControllerTask(WinHPCTask):
     unit_type = Unicode("Core", config=False)
     work_directory = Unicode('', config=False)
 
-    def __init__(self, config=None):
-        super(IPControllerTask, self).__init__(config=config)
+    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+        super(IPControllerTask, self).__init__(**kwargs)
         the_uuid = uuid.uuid1()
         self.std_out_file_path = os.path.join('log','ipcontroller-%s.out' % the_uuid)
         self.std_err_file_path = os.path.join('log','ipcontroller-%s.err' % the_uuid)
@@ -292,8 +292,8 @@ class IPEngineTask(WinHPCTask):
     unit_type = Unicode("Core", config=False)
     work_directory = Unicode('', config=False)
 
-    def __init__(self, config=None):
-        super(IPEngineTask,self).__init__(config=config)
+    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+        super(IPEngineTask,self).__init__(**kwargs)
         the_uuid = uuid.uuid1()
         self.std_out_file_path = os.path.join('log','ipengine-%s.out' % the_uuid)
         self.std_err_file_path = os.path.join('log','ipengine-%s.err' % the_uuid)