diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index de144ee6104c5..17ec2d697b55c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -86,6 +86,12 @@ jobs:
         with:
           fetch-depth: 2
 
+      - run: |
+          cmd.exe /c '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x86 10.0.22621.0'
+          cmd.exe /c '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x86 10.0.22621.0 && set'
+          cmd.exe /c '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x86 10.0.22621.0 && set' 2> out.txt
+          cat out.txt >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+
       # Free up disk space on Linux by removing preinstalled components that
       # we do not need. We do this to enable some of the less resource
       # intensive jobs to run on free runners, which however also have
diff --git a/src/ci/github-actions/jobs.yml b/src/ci/github-actions/jobs.yml
index 64e64867de26f..279c7649ca3d0 100644
--- a/src/ci/github-actions/jobs.yml
+++ b/src/ci/github-actions/jobs.yml
@@ -474,13 +474,13 @@ auto:
     env:
       RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS: --build=i686-pc-windows-msvc  --enable-sanitizers
       SCRIPT: make ci-msvc-py
-    <<: *job-windows
+    <<: *job-windows-8c
 
   - name: i686-msvc-2
     env:
       RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS: --build=i686-pc-windows-msvc --enable-sanitizers
       SCRIPT: make ci-msvc-ps1
-    <<: *job-windows
+    <<: *job-windows-8c
 
   # x86_64-msvc-ext is split into multiple jobs to run tests in parallel.
   - name: x86_64-msvc-ext1
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ auto:
       SCRIPT: python x.py dist bootstrap --include-default-paths
       DIST_REQUIRE_ALL_TOOLS: 1
       CODEGEN_BACKENDS: llvm,cranelift
-    <<: *job-windows
+    <<: *job-windows-8c
 
   - name: dist-aarch64-msvc
     env: