diff --git a/.github/workflows/windows.yml b/.github/workflows/windows.yml
index 23cf325..55c07cf 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/windows.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/windows.yml
@@ -10,10 +10,9 @@ jobs:
       - run: curl --version
       - run: curl https://httpbin.org --libcurl example.c
       - run: |
-          dl_archive=curl-8.11.0_1-win64-mingw.zip
-          curl -LO https://curl.se/windows/dl-8.11.0_1/$dl_archive
-          curl-8.11.0_1-win64-mingw.zip
-          powershell -command Expand-Archive -LiteralPath $dl_archive -DestinationPath .
-          ls curl-8.11.0_1-win64-mingw
-      - run: gcc -o example.exe example.c "curl-8.11.0_1-win64-mingw/bin/libcurl-x64.dll" curl-8.11.0_1-win64-mingw/include && ./example.exe
+          $dl_file="curl-8.11.0_1-win64-mingw"
+          curl -LO https://curl.se/windows/dl-8.11.0_1/$dl_file.zip
+          powershell -command Expand-Archive -LiteralPath $dl_file.zip -DestinationPath .
+          ls $dl_file
+      - run: gcc -o example.exe example.c "$dl_file/bin/libcurl-x64.dll" $dl_file/include && ./example.exe
       # - run: gcc -o example example.c "libcurl-dyn/bin/libcurl-x64.dll" -Ilibcurl/include