diff --git a/src/client/pythonEnvironments/base/locators/lowLevel/filesLocator.ts b/src/client/pythonEnvironments/base/locators/lowLevel/filesLocator.ts
index 0a6fa28d84fd..27687feb3ad3 100644
--- a/src/client/pythonEnvironments/base/locators/lowLevel/filesLocator.ts
+++ b/src/client/pythonEnvironments/base/locators/lowLevel/filesLocator.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 import { Event, EventEmitter } from 'vscode';
 import { iterPythonExecutablesInDir } from '../../../common/commonUtils';
-import { normalizePath } from '../../../common/externalDependencies';
+import { resolvePath } from '../../../common/externalDependencies';
 import { PythonEnvInfo, PythonEnvKind } from '../../info';
 import { getFastEnvInfo } from '../../info/env';
 import { ILocator, IPythonEnvsIterator, PythonEnvUpdatedEvent, PythonLocatorQuery } from '../../locator';
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ async function* iterMinimalEnvsFromExecutables(
     kind: PythonEnvKind,
 ): AsyncIterableIterator<PythonEnvInfo> {
     for await (const filename of executables) {
-        const executable = normalizePath(filename);
+        const executable = resolvePath(filename);
         yield getFastEnvInfo(kind, executable);
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/client/pythonEnvironments/common/externalDependencies.ts b/src/client/pythonEnvironments/common/externalDependencies.ts
index 059a0bdd387f..aec78ad1d21b 100644
--- a/src/client/pythonEnvironments/common/externalDependencies.ts
+++ b/src/client/pythonEnvironments/common/externalDependencies.ts
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ export function normalizePath(filename: string): string {
     return normalizeFilename(filename);
 }
 
+export function resolvePath(filename: string): string {
+    return path.resolve(filename);
+}
+
 export function normCasePath(filePath: string): string {
     return getOSType() === OSType.Windows ? path.normalize(filePath).toUpperCase() : path.normalize(filePath);
 }
diff --git a/src/test/pythonEnvironments/base/locators/lowLevel/windowsKnownPathsLocator.functional.test.ts b/src/test/pythonEnvironments/base/locators/lowLevel/windowsKnownPathsLocator.functional.test.ts
index 3cc3502b12a1..b57744e74e39 100644
--- a/src/test/pythonEnvironments/base/locators/lowLevel/windowsKnownPathsLocator.functional.test.ts
+++ b/src/test/pythonEnvironments/base/locators/lowLevel/windowsKnownPathsLocator.functional.test.ts
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ function getEnv(
 ): PythonEnvInfo {
     const env = createNamedEnv(name, version, PythonEnvKind.Unknown, executable);
     env.arch = Architecture.Unknown;
-    env.executable.filename = env.executable.filename.toLowerCase();
     env.source = [PythonEnvSource.PathEnvVar];
     return env;
 }