diff --git a/lib/gui/app/os/windows-network-drives.js b/lib/gui/app/os/windows-network-drives.js
index 09678b24..c4a7e025 100644
--- a/lib/gui/app/os/windows-network-drives.js
+++ b/lib/gui/app/os/windows-network-drives.js
@@ -79,36 +79,7 @@ const tmpFileDisposer = () => {
 
 const readFileAsync = promisify(fs.readFile)
 
-/**
- * @summary Promisified child_process.execFile
- * @function
- *
- * @param {String} file - command
- * @param {String[]} args - arguments
- * @param {Object} options - child_process.execFile options
- *
- * @returns {Promise<Object>} - { stdout, stderr }
- *
- * @example
- * execFileAsync('ls', [ '.' ])
- *   .then(console.log);
- */
-const execFileAsync = async (file, args, options) => {
-  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-    cp.execFile(
-      file,
-      args,
-      options,
-      (error, stdout, stderr) => {
-        if (error) {
-          reject(error)
-        } else {
-          resolve({ stdout, stderr })
-        }
-      }
-    )
-  })
-}
+const execAsync = promisify(cp.exec)
 
 /**
  * @summary Returns wmic's output for network drives
@@ -121,27 +92,27 @@ const execFileAsync = async (file, args, options) => {
  */
 exports.getWmicNetworkDrivesOutput = async () => {
   // Exported for tests.
-  // Windows's wmic outputs ucs2 encoded data.
-  // When trying to read its stdout from node's execFile, it is always transformed (even if you pass { encoding: 'buffer' })
-  // Information is lost and accented characters become unreadable (with no way to guess what they were).
-  // Because of this, we use the wmic's "/output:" switch that redirects the output to a file.
-  // For some reason wmic doesn't like dashes in filenames, that's why we change the tmp file prefix in tmpFileAsync above.
+  // When trying to read wmic's stdout directly from node, it is encoded with the current
+  // console codepage (depending on the computer).
+  // Decoding this would require getting this codepage somehow and using iconv as node
+  // doesn't know how to read cp850 directly for example.
+  // We could also use wmic's "/output:" switch but it doesn't work when the filename
+  // contains a space and the os temp dir may contain spaces ("D:\Windows Temp Files" for example).
+  // So we just redirect to a file and read it afterwards as we know it will be ucs2 encoded.
   return Bluebird.using(tmpFileDisposer(), async ({ path }) => {
-    await execFileAsync(
+    const command = [
       Path.join(process.env.SystemRoot, 'System32', 'Wbem', 'wmic'),
-      [
-        `/output:${path}`,
-        'path',
-        'Win32_LogicalDisk',
-        'Where',
-        'DriveType="4"',
-        'get',
-        'DeviceID,ProviderName'
-      ],
-      { windowsHide: true, windowsVerbatimArguments: true }
-    )
-    const data = await readFileAsync(path, 'ucs2')
-    return data
+      'path',
+      'Win32_LogicalDisk',
+      'Where',
+      'DriveType="4"',
+      'get',
+      'DeviceID,ProviderName',
+      '>',
+      `"${path}"`
+    ]
+    await execAsync(command.join(' '), { windowsHide: true })
+    return readFileAsync(path, 'ucs2')
   })
 }