diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index b67ebc2d8..bec14ff65 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ jobs:
       - uses: ./.github/actions/setup
         with:
           use_lockfile: false
+      - name: Work around windows short path alias # https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/712
+        if: runner.os == 'Windows'
+        run: new-item D:\temp -ItemType Directory; echo "TEMP=D:\temp" >> $env:GITHUB_ENV
       - name: suite
         run: ${{ matrix.command }}
         working-directory: ${{ matrix.dir }}
diff --git a/packages/shared-internals/src/paths.ts b/packages/shared-internals/src/paths.ts
index 5d5ea6dbe..84797443f 100644
--- a/packages/shared-internals/src/paths.ts
+++ b/packages/shared-internals/src/paths.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ export function explicitRelative(fromDir: string, toFile: string) {
   if (!isAbsolute(result) && !result.startsWith('.')) {
     result = './' + result;
   }
-  if (isAbsolute(toFile) && result.endsWith(toFile)) {
+  if (isAbsolute(toFile) && result.split(sep).join('/').endsWith(toFile)) {
     // this prevents silly "relative" paths like
     // "../../../../../Users/you/projects/your/stuff" when we could have just
     // said "/Users/you/projects/your/stuff". The silly path isn't incorrect,
diff --git a/tests/scenarios/compat-renaming-test.ts b/tests/scenarios/compat-renaming-test.ts
index 70b2c6985..6918e75f0 100644
--- a/tests/scenarios/compat-renaming-test.ts
+++ b/tests/scenarios/compat-renaming-test.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import type { PreparedApp } from 'scenario-tester';
 import { appScenarios, baseAddon } from './scenarios';
 import QUnit from 'qunit';
-import { resolve, sep } from 'path';
 const { module: Qmodule, test } = QUnit;
 
 import type { ExpectFile } from '@embroider/test-support/file-assertions/qunit';
@@ -238,12 +237,12 @@ appScenarios
         expectAudit
           .module('./components/import-somebody-elses-original.js')
           .resolves('somebody-elses-package')
-          .to(resolve('/@embroider/ext-cjs/somebody-elses-package').split(sep).join('/'));
+          .to('/@embroider/ext-cjs/somebody-elses-package');
 
         expectAudit
           .module('./components/import-somebody-elses-original.js')
           .resolves('somebody-elses-package/deeper')
-          .to(resolve('/@embroider/ext-cjs/somebody-elses-package/deeper').split(sep).join('/'));
+          .to('/@embroider/ext-cjs/somebody-elses-package/deeper');
       });
       test('single file package gets captured and renamed', function () {
         expectAudit
diff --git a/tests/scenarios/core-resolver-test.ts b/tests/scenarios/core-resolver-test.ts
index c4fa429a7..cab82f709 100644
--- a/tests/scenarios/core-resolver-test.ts
+++ b/tests/scenarios/core-resolver-test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import type { AddonMeta, AppMeta, RewrittenPackageIndex } from '@embroider/shared-internals';
 import { outputFileSync, readJsonSync, writeJSONSync } from 'fs-extra';
-import { resolve, sep } from 'path';
+import { resolve } from 'path';
 import QUnit from 'qunit';
 import type { PreparedApp } from 'scenario-tester';
 import { Project, Scenarios } from 'scenario-tester';
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ Scenarios.fromProject(() => new Project())
             'app.js': `import "rsvp"`,
           });
           await configure({});
-          expectAudit.module('./app.js').resolves('rsvp').to(resolve('/@embroider/ext-cjs/rsvp').split(sep).join('/'));
+          expectAudit.module('./app.js').resolves('rsvp').to('/@embroider/ext-cjs/rsvp');
         });
 
         test(`known ember-source-provided virtual packages are not externalized when explicitly included in deps`, async function () {