diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index a6d891f8289..b439d3c1f7b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -162,10 +162,12 @@ jobs:
         os: [Windows]
         python:
           - "3.8"
-          # Commented out, since Windows tests are expensively slow.
+          # Commented out, since Windows tests are expensively slow,
+          # only test the oldest and newest Python supported by pip
           # - "3.9"
           # - "3.10"
-          - "3.11"
+          # - "3.11"
+          - "3.12"
         group: [1, 2]
 
     steps:
diff --git a/news/12562.trivial.rst b/news/12562.trivial.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ab88c4077bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/12562.trivial.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Update CI tests for Windows to run on Python 3.12
diff --git a/tests/functional/test_uninstall.py b/tests/functional/test_uninstall.py
index 80ffe056ed1..af140e07159 100644
--- a/tests/functional/test_uninstall.py
+++ b/tests/functional/test_uninstall.py
@@ -238,7 +238,6 @@ def test_uninstall_overlapping_package(
     "console_scripts",
     [
         "test_ = distutils_install:test",
-        "test_:test_ = distutils_install:test_test",
         ",test_ = distutils_install:test_test",
         ", = distutils_install:test_test",
     ],