diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index cd9475046..d7ac0733d 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -1,10 +1,4 @@
 environment:
-  global:
-    # SDK v7.0 MSVC Express 2008's SetEnv.cmd script will fail if the
-    # /E:ON and /V:ON options are not enabled in the batch script intepreter
-    # See: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13751649/163740
-    CMD_IN_ENV: "cmd /E:ON /V:ON /C .\\appveyor\\run_with_env.cmd"
-
   matrix:
 
     # Pre-installed Python versions, which Appveyor may upgrade to
@@ -73,10 +67,10 @@ install:
   # compiled extensions and are not provided as pre-built wheel packages,
   # pip will build them from source using the MSVC compiler matching the
   # target Python version and architecture
-  - "%CMD_IN_ENV% pip install tox"
+  - C:\Python27\python -m pip install tox
 
 build: false  # Not a C# project, build stuff at the test step instead.
 
 test_script:
   # Build the compiled extension and run the project tests
-  - "%CMD_IN_ENV% tox -e %TESTENV%"
+  - C:\Python27\python -m tox -e %TESTENV%
diff --git a/appveyor/run_with_env.cmd b/appveyor/run_with_env.cmd
deleted file mode 100644
index 3a472bc83..000000000
--- a/appveyor/run_with_env.cmd
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-:: To build extensions for 64 bit Python 3, we need to configure environment
-:: variables to use the MSVC 2010 C++ compilers from GRMSDKX_EN_DVD.iso of:
-:: MS Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4 (SDK v7.1)
-::
-:: To build extensions for 64 bit Python 2, we need to configure environment
-:: variables to use the MSVC 2008 C++ compilers from GRMSDKX_EN_DVD.iso of:
-:: MS Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 (SDK v7.0)
-::
-:: 32 bit builds do not require specific environment configurations.
-::
-:: Note: this script needs to be run with the /E:ON and /V:ON flags for the
-:: cmd interpreter, at least for (SDK v7.0)
-::
-:: More details at:
-:: https://github.com/cython/cython/wiki/64BitCythonExtensionsOnWindows
-:: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13751649/163740
-::
-:: Author: Olivier Grisel
-:: License: CC0 1.0 Universal: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
-@ECHO OFF
-
-SET COMMAND_TO_RUN=%*
-SET WIN_SDK_ROOT=C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows
-
-SET MAJOR_PYTHON_VERSION="%PYTHON_VERSION:~0,1%"
-IF %MAJOR_PYTHON_VERSION% == "2" (
-    SET WINDOWS_SDK_VERSION="v7.0"
-) ELSE IF %MAJOR_PYTHON_VERSION% == "3" (
-    SET WINDOWS_SDK_VERSION="v7.1"
-) ELSE (
-    ECHO Unsupported Python version: "%MAJOR_PYTHON_VERSION%"
-    EXIT 1
-)
-
-IF "%PYTHON_ARCH%"=="64" (
-    ECHO Configuring Windows SDK %WINDOWS_SDK_VERSION% for Python %MAJOR_PYTHON_VERSION% on a 64 bit architecture
-    SET DISTUTILS_USE_SDK=1
-    SET MSSdk=1
-    "%WIN_SDK_ROOT%\%WINDOWS_SDK_VERSION%\Setup\WindowsSdkVer.exe" -q -version:%WINDOWS_SDK_VERSION%
-    "%WIN_SDK_ROOT%\%WINDOWS_SDK_VERSION%\Bin\SetEnv.cmd" /x64 /release
-    ECHO Executing: %COMMAND_TO_RUN%
-    call %COMMAND_TO_RUN% || EXIT 1
-) ELSE (
-    ECHO Using default MSVC build environment for 32 bit architecture
-    ECHO Executing: %COMMAND_TO_RUN%
-    call %COMMAND_TO_RUN% || EXIT 1
-)