diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 9a161e55e..809c4e6d8 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -22,8 +22,7 @@ use utils::{QuestionAction, QuestionPolicy};
 const BUFFER_CAPACITY: usize = 1024 * 32;
 
 /// Current directory or empty directory
-static CURRENT_DIRECTORY: Lazy<PathBuf> =
-    Lazy::new(|| std::fs::canonicalize(env::current_dir().unwrap_or_default()).unwrap_or_default());
+static CURRENT_DIRECTORY: Lazy<PathBuf> = Lazy::new(|| env::current_dir().unwrap_or_default());
 
 /// The status code returned from `ouch` on error
 pub const EXIT_FAILURE: i32 = libc::EXIT_FAILURE;
diff --git a/tests/ui.rs b/tests/ui.rs
index 513dce7b8..c72f05224 100644
--- a/tests/ui.rs
+++ b/tests/ui.rs
@@ -62,12 +62,8 @@ fn ui_test_err_compress_missing_extension() {
     let (_dropper, dir) = testdir().unwrap();
 
     // prepare
-    #[cfg(not(windows))]
     run_in(dir, "touch", "input").unwrap();
 
-    #[cfg(windows)]
-    run_in(dir, "cmd", "/C copy nul input").unwrap();
-
     ui!(run_ouch("ouch compress input output", dir));
 }
 
@@ -75,15 +71,8 @@ fn ui_test_err_compress_missing_extension() {
 fn ui_test_err_decompress_missing_extension() {
     let (_dropper, dir) = testdir().unwrap();
 
-    #[cfg(not(windows))]
     run_in(dir, "touch", "a b.unknown").unwrap();
 
-    #[cfg(windows)]
-    run_in(dir, "cmd", "/C copy nul a").unwrap();
-
-    #[cfg(windows)]
-    run_in(dir, "cmd", "/C copy nul b.unknown").unwrap();
-
     ui!(run_ouch("ouch decompress a", dir));
     ui!(run_ouch("ouch decompress a b.unknown", dir));
     ui!(run_ouch("ouch decompress b.unknown", dir));
@@ -103,12 +92,8 @@ fn ui_test_ok_compress() {
     let (_dropper, dir) = testdir().unwrap();
 
     // prepare
-    #[cfg(not(windows))]
     run_in(dir, "touch", "input").unwrap();
 
-    #[cfg(windows)]
-    run_in(dir, "cmd", "/C copy nul input").unwrap();
-
     ui!(run_ouch("ouch compress input output.zip", dir));
     ui!(run_ouch("ouch compress input output.gz", dir));
 }
@@ -118,7 +103,6 @@ fn ui_test_ok_decompress() {
     let (_dropper, dir) = testdir().unwrap();
 
     // prepare
-    #[cfg(not(windows))]
     run_in(dir, "touch", "input").unwrap();
     run_ouch("ouch compress input output.zst", dir);