diff --git a/windows/syscall_windows.go b/windows/syscall_windows.go
index ffb8708cc..6395a031d 100644
--- a/windows/syscall_windows.go
+++ b/windows/syscall_windows.go
@@ -125,8 +125,7 @@ func UTF16PtrToString(p *uint16) string {
 	for ptr := unsafe.Pointer(p); *(*uint16)(ptr) != 0; n++ {
 		ptr = unsafe.Pointer(uintptr(ptr) + unsafe.Sizeof(*p))
 	}
-
-	return string(utf16.Decode(unsafe.Slice(p, n)))
+	return UTF16ToString(unsafe.Slice(p, n))
 }
 
 func Getpagesize() int { return 4096 }