diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index f91e6816ae426..632ade60a8093 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -536,7 +536,6 @@ jobs:
   try:
     name: "try - ${{ matrix.name }}"
     env:
-      DIST_TRY_BUILD: 1
       CI_JOB_NAME: "${{ matrix.name }}"
       CARGO_REGISTRIES_CRATES_IO_PROTOCOL: sparse
       HEAD_SHA: "${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}"
@@ -553,9 +552,12 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         include:
-          - name: dist-x86_64-linux
-            os: ubuntu-20.04-16core-64gb
-            env: {}
+          - name: dist-x86_64-msvc
+            env:
+              RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS: "--build=x86_64-pc-windows-msvc --host=x86_64-pc-windows-msvc --target=x86_64-pc-windows-msvc --enable-full-tools --enable-profiler"
+              SCRIPT: python x.py build --set rust.debug=true opt-dist && PGO_HOST=x86_64-pc-windows-msvc ./build/x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/stage0-tools-bin/opt-dist windows-ci -- python x.py dist bootstrap --include-default-paths
+              DIST_REQUIRE_ALL_TOOLS: 1
+            os: windows-2019-8core-32gb
     timeout-minutes: 600
     runs-on: "${{ matrix.os }}"
     steps:
diff --git a/src/ci/github-actions/ci.yml b/src/ci/github-actions/ci.yml
index 2577682c57c67..320f85f4959db 100644
--- a/src/ci/github-actions/ci.yml
+++ b/src/ci/github-actions/ci.yml
@@ -689,15 +689,23 @@ jobs:
     <<: *base-ci-job
     name: try - ${{ matrix.name }}
     env:
-      DIST_TRY_BUILD: 1
+#      DIST_TRY_BUILD: 1
       <<: [*shared-ci-variables, *prod-variables]
     if: github.event_name == 'push' && (((github.ref == 'refs/heads/try' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/try-perf') && github.repository == 'rust-lang-ci/rust') || ((github.ref == 'refs/heads/automation/bors/try') && github.repository == 'rust-lang/rust'))
     strategy:
       matrix:
         include:
-          - &dist-x86_64-linux
-            name: dist-x86_64-linux
-            <<: *job-linux-16c
+          - name: dist-x86_64-msvc
+            env:
+              RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS: >-
+                --build=x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
+                --host=x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
+                --target=x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
+                --enable-full-tools
+                --enable-profiler
+              SCRIPT: python x.py build --set rust.debug=true opt-dist && PGO_HOST=x86_64-pc-windows-msvc ./build/x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/stage0-tools-bin/opt-dist windows-ci -- python x.py dist bootstrap --include-default-paths
+              DIST_REQUIRE_ALL_TOOLS: 1
+            <<: *job-windows-8c
 
   master:
     name: master
diff --git a/src/tools/opt-dist/src/tests.rs b/src/tools/opt-dist/src/tests.rs
index 8000c9e7fddcf..3c33cfe985da4 100644
--- a/src/tools/opt-dist/src/tests.rs
+++ b/src/tools/opt-dist/src/tests.rs
@@ -24,11 +24,10 @@ pub fn run_tests(env: &Environment) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     let host_triple = env.host_triple();
     let version = find_dist_version(&dist_dir)?;
 
-    // Extract rustc, libstd, cargo and src archives to create the optimized sysroot
+    // Extract rustc, libstd and src archives to create the optimized sysroot
     let rustc_dir = extract_dist_dir(&format!("rustc-{version}-{host_triple}"))?.join("rustc");
     let libstd_dir = extract_dist_dir(&format!("rust-std-{version}-{host_triple}"))?
         .join(format!("rust-std-{host_triple}"));
-    let cargo_dir = extract_dist_dir(&format!("cargo-{version}-{host_triple}"))?.join("cargo");
     let extracted_src_dir = extract_dist_dir(&format!("rust-src-{version}"))?.join("rust-src");
 
     // We need to manually copy libstd to the extracted rustc sysroot
@@ -47,8 +46,6 @@ pub fn run_tests(env: &Environment) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
 
     let rustc_path = rustc_dir.join("bin").join(format!("rustc{}", executable_extension()));
     assert!(rustc_path.is_file());
-    let cargo_path = cargo_dir.join("bin").join(format!("cargo{}", executable_extension()));
-    assert!(cargo_path.is_file());
 
     // Specify path to a LLVM config so that LLVM is not rebuilt.
     // It doesn't really matter which LLVM config we choose, because no sysroot will be compiled.
@@ -65,13 +62,11 @@ change-id = 115898
 
 [build]
 rustc = "{rustc}"
-cargo = "{cargo}"
 
 [target.{host_triple}]
 llvm-config = "{llvm_config}"
 "#,
         rustc = rustc_path.to_string().replace('\\', "/"),
-        cargo = cargo_path.to_string().replace('\\', "/"),
         llvm_config = llvm_config.to_string().replace('\\', "/")
     );
     log::info!("Using following `config.toml` for running tests:\n{config_content}");
@@ -84,6 +79,8 @@ llvm-config = "{llvm_config}"
         env.python_binary(),
         x_py.as_str(),
         "test",
+        "--build",
+        env.host_triple(),
         "--stage",
         "0",
         "tests/assembly",