diff --git a/pkg/osquery/runtime/runtime_test.go b/pkg/osquery/runtime/runtime_test.go
index d4bb4e8bd..2f481d7bf 100644
--- a/pkg/osquery/runtime/runtime_test.go
+++ b/pkg/osquery/runtime/runtime_test.go
@@ -827,14 +827,16 @@ func setUpTestSlogger() (*threadsafebuffer.ThreadSafeBuffer, *slog.Logger) {
 // The default t.TempDir is too long of a path, creating too long of an osquery
 // extension socket, on posix systems.
 func testRootDirectory(t *testing.T) string {
+	var rootDir string
+
 	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-		return t.TempDir()
+		rootDir = t.TempDir()
+	} else {
+		ulid := ulid.New()
+		rootDir = filepath.Join(os.TempDir(), ulid[len(ulid)-4:])
+		require.NoError(t, os.Mkdir(rootDir, 0700))
 	}
 
-	ulid := ulid.New()
-	rootDir := filepath.Join(os.TempDir(), ulid[len(ulid)-4:])
-	require.NoError(t, os.Mkdir(rootDir, 0700))
-
 	t.Cleanup(func() {
 		// Do a couple retries in case the directory is still in use --
 		// Windows is a little slow on this sometimes