diff --git a/.gitlab/ci/host-test.yml b/.gitlab/ci/host-test.yml
index edca658bd4..f4b3966d94 100644
--- a/.gitlab/ci/host-test.yml
+++ b/.gitlab/ci/host-test.yml
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ test_cli_installer:
   script:
     # Tools must be downloaded for testing
     # We could use "idf_tools.py download all", but we don't want to install clang because of its huge size
-    - python3 ${IDF_PATH}/tools/idf_tools.py download required qemu-riscv32 qemu-xtensa
+    - python3 ${IDF_PATH}/tools/idf_tools.py download required qemu-riscv32 qemu-xtensa cmake
     - cd ${IDF_PATH}/tools/test_idf_tools
     - python3 -m pip install jsonschema
     - python3 ./test_idf_tools.py -v
diff --git a/.gitlab/ci/test-win.yml b/.gitlab/ci/test-win.yml
index 6949dda5ad..42e2446933 100644
--- a/.gitlab/ci/test-win.yml
+++ b/.gitlab/ci/test-win.yml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ test_cli_installer_win:
     IDF_PATH: "$CI_PROJECT_DIR"
   script:
     # Tools must be downloaded for testing
-    - python ${IDF_PATH}\tools\idf_tools.py download required qemu-riscv32 qemu-xtensa
+    - python ${IDF_PATH}\tools\idf_tools.py download required qemu-riscv32 qemu-xtensa cmake
     - cd ${IDF_PATH}\tools\test_idf_tools
     - python -m pip install jsonschema
     - python .\test_idf_tools.py
diff --git a/tools/test_idf_tools/test_idf_tools.py b/tools/test_idf_tools/test_idf_tools.py
index 09f2d19553..c83df0daa2 100755
--- a/tools/test_idf_tools/test_idf_tools.py
+++ b/tools/test_idf_tools/test_idf_tools.py
@@ -118,14 +118,17 @@ class TestUsageBase(unittest.TestCase):
         old_tools_dir = os.environ.get('IDF_TOOLS_PATH') or os.path.expanduser(idf_tools.IDF_TOOLS_PATH_DEFAULT)
 
         mirror_prefix_map = None
-        if os.path.exists(old_tools_dir):
-            mirror_prefix_map = 'https://dl.espressif.com/dl/toolchains/preview,file:' + os.path.join(old_tools_dir,
-                                                                                                      'dist')
-            mirror_prefix_map += ';https://dl.espressif.com/dl,file:' + os.path.join(old_tools_dir, 'dist')
-            mirror_prefix_map += ';https://github.com/espressif/.*/releases/download/.*/,file:' + os.path.join(
-                old_tools_dir, 'dist', '')
+        if os.path.exists(old_tools_dir) and sys.platform != 'win32':
+            # These are are all mapping to filesystem. Windows cannot download from there not even if file:// is omitted
+            local = ''.join(['file://', os.path.join(old_tools_dir, 'dist', '')])
+
+            mirror_prefix_map = ';'.join([f'https://dl.espressif.com/dl,{local}',
+                                          f'https://github.com/.*/.*/releases/download/.*/,{local}'])
+
+        # Windows will keep downloading the tools from default location or IDF_MIRROR_PREFIX_MAP if set globally
+
         if mirror_prefix_map:
-            print('Using IDF_MIRROR_PREFIX_MAP={}'.format(mirror_prefix_map))
+            print(f'Using IDF_MIRROR_PREFIX_MAP={mirror_prefix_map}')
             os.environ['IDF_MIRROR_PREFIX_MAP'] = mirror_prefix_map
 
         cls.temp_tools_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='idf_tools_tmp')