diff --git a/lib/parse/cmdline.py b/lib/parse/cmdline.py
index 4396bac52..6cda6f500 100644
--- a/lib/parse/cmdline.py
+++ b/lib/parse/cmdline.py
@@ -788,16 +788,7 @@ def cmdLineParser():
         prompt = False
         advancedHelp = True
 
-        _ = sys.argv
-
-        # Python on Windows has problems with quote/whitespace cases like: python -c "import sys; print sys.argv" --dummy='foo: bar'  # ['-c', "--dummy='foo:", "bar'"]
-        if IS_WIN:
-            try:
-                _ = shlex.split(" ".join(sys.argv), posix=False)
-            except ValueError:
-                pass
-
-        for arg in _:
+        for arg in sys.argv:
             argv.append(getUnicode(arg, encoding=sys.getfilesystemencoding()))
 
         checkDeprecatedOptions(argv)