diff --git a/__tests__/no-bare-urls.test.ts b/__tests__/no-bare-urls.test.ts
index e68082cf..f0acb67d 100644
--- a/__tests__/no-bare-urls.test.ts
+++ b/__tests__/no-bare-urls.test.ts
@@ -177,6 +177,22 @@ ruleTest({
         <https://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%81%A1%E3%82%85%E3%81%86%E3%81%94%E3%81%8F%E3%81%94>
       `,
     },
+    {// accounts for https://github.com/platers/obsidian-linter/issues/1030
+      testName: 'Make sure that file URIs with three slashes are properly matched',
+      before: dedent`
+        # Untitled
+
+        file:///C:/Untitled.md
+      `,
+      after: dedent`
+        # Untitled
+
+        <file:///C:/Untitled.md>
+      `,
+      options: {
+        noBareURIs: true,
+      },
+    },
   ],
 });
 
diff --git a/src/rules/no-bare-urls.ts b/src/rules/no-bare-urls.ts
index 6431ee96..fe39a00e 100644
--- a/src/rules/no-bare-urls.ts
+++ b/src/rules/no-bare-urls.ts
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ export default class NoBareUrls extends RuleBuilder<NoBareUrlsOptions> {
       text = this.handleMatches(text, URLMatches, false);
     }
 
-
     if (options.noBareURIs) {
       const URIMatches = text.match(simpleURIRegex);
       if (URIMatches) {
diff --git a/src/utils/regex.ts b/src/utils/regex.ts
index f6c0cc10..ebc5fcba 100644
--- a/src/utils/regex.ts
+++ b/src/utils/regex.ts
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ export const tableSeparator = /(\|? *:?-{1,}:? *\|?)(\| *:?-{1,}:? *\|?)*( |\t)*
 export const tableStartingPipe = /^(((>[ ]?)*)|([ ]{0,3}))\|/m;
 export const tableRow = /[^\n]*?\|[^\n]*?(\n|$)/m;
 // based on https://gist.github.com/skeller88/5eb73dc0090d4ff1249a
-export const simpleURIRegex = /(([a-z\-0-9]+:)\/{2})([^\s/?#]*[^\s")'.?!/]|[/])?(([/?#][^\s")']*[^\s")'.?!])|[/])?/gi;
+export const simpleURIRegex = /(([a-z\-0-9]+:)\/{2,3})([^\s/?#]*[^\s")'.?!/]|[/])?(([/?#][^\s")']*[^\s")'.?!])|[/])?/gi;
 // generated from https://github.com/spamscanner/url-regex-safe using strict: true, returnString: true, and re2: false as options
 export const urlRegex = /(?:(?:(?:[a-z]+:)?\/\/)|www\.)(?:localhost|(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)(?:\.(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)){3}|(?:(?:[a-fA-F\d]{1,4}:){7}(?:[a-fA-F\d]{1,4}|:)|(?:[a-fA-F\d]{1,4}:){6}(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)(?:\.(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)){3}|:[a-fA-F\d]{1,4}|:)|(?:[a-fA-F\d]{1,4}:){5}(?::(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)(?:\.(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)){3}|(?::[a-fA-F\d]{1,4}){1,2}|:)|(?:[a-fA-F\d]{1,4}:){4}(?:(?::[a-fA-F\d]{1,4}){0,1}:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)(?:\.(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)){3}|(?::[a-fA-F\d]{1,4}){1,3}|:)|(?:[a-fA-F\d]{1,4}:){3}(?:(?::[a-fA-F\d]{1,4}){0,2}:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)(?:\.(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)){3}|(?::[a-fA-F\d]{1,4}){1,4}|:)|(?:[a-fA-F\d]{1,4}:){2}(?:(?::[a-fA-F\d]{1,4}){0,3}:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)(?:\.(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)){3}|(?::[a-fA-F\d]{1,4}){1,5}|:)|(?:[a-fA-F\d]{1,4}:){1}(?:(?::[a-fA-F\d]{1,4}){0,4}:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)(?:\.(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)){3}|(?::[a-fA-F\d]{1,4}){1,6}|:)|(?::(?:(?::[a-fA-F\d]{1,4}){0,5}:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)(?:\.(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)){3}|(?::[a-fA-F\d]{1,4}){1,7}|:)))(?:%[0-9a-zA-Z]{1,})?|(?:(?:[a-z0-9][-_]*)*[a-z0-9]+)(?:\.(?:[a-z0-9]-*)*[a-z0-9]+)*(?:\.(?:[a-z]{2,})))(?::\d{2,5})?(?:(?:[/?#][a-z0-9-_%/&=?$.+!*‘(,#]*[a-z0-9-%_/$+!*‘(,])|[/])?/gi;
 export const anchorTagRegex = /<a[\s]+([^>]+)>((?:.(?!<\/a>))*.)<\/a>/g;