diff --git a/tests/automatic/broker/read_config/check_windows.bat b/tests/automatic/broker/read_config/check_windows.bat
index ed4dfc5f8d36c7c07bca2cae0939f448fae70c9c..97281a411e385794cf45cedd922b25b160079324 100644
--- a/tests/automatic/broker/read_config/check_windows.bat
+++ b/tests/automatic/broker/read_config/check_windows.bat
@@ -1,10 +1,4 @@
 set full_name="%1"
-set short_name="%~nx1"
-
-start /B "" "%full_name%" -config settings_good.json
-
-ping 192.0.2.1 -n 1 -w 1000 > nul
-Taskkill /IM "%short_name%" /F
 
 %full_name% -config settings_bad.json 2>&1 | findstr /c:"not set"  || goto :error
 
diff --git a/tests/automatic/producer/aai/check_windows.bat b/tests/automatic/producer/aai/check_windows.bat
index 5a5741ddf3853f1e36675267a9bbd5e4f3ea488e..ee7e2b23055ef64869aee4f80198ca5d16434629 100644
--- a/tests/automatic/producer/aai/check_windows.bat
+++ b/tests/automatic/producer/aai/check_windows.bat
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SET receiver_folder2="%receiver_root_folder%\test_facility\gpfs\%beamline%\2019\
 SET dbname=%beamtime_id%_%data_source%
 SET dbname2=%beamtime_id2%_%data_source%
 SET token=%BLP07_W_TOKEN%
-SET beamline_dir=/c:\tmp\asapo\beamline\p07\current\
+SET beamline_dir=c:\tmp\asapo\beamline\p07\current\
 
 
 
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ set PYTHONPATH=%2
 mkdir %beamline_dir%
 copy beamtime-metadata-11111111.json %beamline_dir% /y
 
-"%1" "%3" %beamline% %token%  %data_source% "127.0.0.1:8400"%beamline_dir%beamtime-metadata-11111111.json > out
+"%1" "%3" %beamline% %token%  %data_source% "127.0.0.1:8400" %beamline_dir%beamtime-metadata-11111111.json > out
 
 type out
 set NUM=0