diff --git a/src/main/java/com/jayway/maven/plugins/android/AbstractEmulatorMojo.java b/src/main/java/com/jayway/maven/plugins/android/AbstractEmulatorMojo.java
index 5e21c8dd6..f31cd9456 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/jayway/maven/plugins/android/AbstractEmulatorMojo.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/jayway/maven/plugins/android/AbstractEmulatorMojo.java
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractEmulatorMojo extends AbstractAndroidMojo {
     /**
      * file name for the pid file.
      */
-    private static final String pidFileName = scriptFolder + "/maven-android-plugin-emulator.pid";
+    private static final String pidFileName = scriptFolder + System.getProperty("file.separator") + "maven-android-plugin-emulator.pid";
 
     /**
      * Are we running on a flavour of Windows.
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ private String getRunningEmulatorName() throws MojoExecutionException, Execution
      */
     private String writeEmulatorStartScriptWindows() throws MojoExecutionException {
 
-        String filename = scriptFolder + "\\maven-android-plugin-emulator-start.bat";
+        String filename = scriptFolder + "\\maven-android-plugin-emulator-start.vbs";
 
         File file = new File(filename);
         PrintWriter writer = null;
@@ -217,10 +217,15 @@ private String writeEmulatorStartScriptWindows() throws MojoExecutionException {
             // and others.
             String command = assembleStartCommandLine();
             String uniqueWindowTitle = "MavenAndroidPlugin-AVD" + parsedAvd;
-            writer.print("START /separate \"" + uniqueWindowTitle + "\"  " + command);
-            writer.println();
-            writer.println("FOR /F \"tokens=2\" %%I in ('TASKLIST /NH /FI \"WINDOWTITLE eq " + uniqueWindowTitle + "\"' ) DO SET PID=%%I");
-            writer.println("ECHO %PID% > " + pidFileName);
+			writer.println("Dim oShell");
+			writer.println("Set oShell = WScript.CreateObject(\"WScript.shell\")");
+			String cmd = "cmd.exe /X /C START /SEPARATE \"\""
+				+ uniqueWindowTitle + "\"\"  " + command.trim();
+			writer.println("oShell.run \"" + cmd + "\"");
+			writer.println("wscript.sleep 1000");
+			String cmd1 = "cmd.exe /X /C @ECHO OFF & FOR /F \"\"tokens=2\"\" %I in ('TASKLIST /NH /FI \"\"WINDOWTITLE eq "
+				+ uniqueWindowTitle + "\"\"') DO ECHO %I> " + pidFileName;
+			writer.println("oShell.run \"" + cmd1 + "\"");
         } catch (IOException e) {
             getLog().error("Failure writing file " + filename);
         } finally {
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/jayway/maven/plugins/android/AndroidSdk.java b/src/main/java/com/jayway/maven/plugins/android/AndroidSdk.java
index 6f450759b..97c8978be 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/jayway/maven/plugins/android/AndroidSdk.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/jayway/maven/plugins/android/AndroidSdk.java
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ public String getPathForTool(String tool) {
         for (String possiblePath : possiblePaths) {
             File file = new File(possiblePath);
             if (file.exists() && !file.isDirectory()){
-                return possiblePath;
+                return file.getAbsolutePath();
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/jayway/maven/plugins/android/AbstractEmulatorMojoTest.java b/src/test/java/com/jayway/maven/plugins/android/AbstractEmulatorMojoTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..eaf25f92b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/com/jayway/maven/plugins/android/AbstractEmulatorMojoTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+package com.jayway.maven.plugins.android;
+
+import org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException;
+import org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoFailureException;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Ignore;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class AbstractEmulatorMojoTest {
+
+	private AbstractEmulatorMojo mockMojo;
+
+	@Before
+	public void setUp() throws Exception {
+		mockMojo = new mockAbstractEmulatorMojo();
+	}
+	
+	@Ignore
+	@Test
+	public final void testStartAndStopAndroidEmulator() throws MojoExecutionException {
+		mockMojo.startAndroidEmulator();
+		mockMojo.stopAndroidEmulator();
+	}
+
+	private class mockAbstractEmulatorMojo extends AbstractEmulatorMojo {
+
+		public void execute() throws MojoExecutionException,
+		MojoFailureException {
+			// TODO Auto-generated method stub
+
+		}
+
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/jayway/maven/plugins/android/AndroidSdkTest.java b/src/test/java/com/jayway/maven/plugins/android/AndroidSdkTest.java
index 36d55a777..29ad74d7a 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/jayway/maven/plugins/android/AndroidSdkTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/jayway/maven/plugins/android/AndroidSdkTest.java
@@ -42,20 +42,20 @@ public void setUp(){
 
     @Test
     public void givenToolAdbThenPathIsPlatformTools() {
-        final String pathForTool =sdkTestSupport.getSdk_with_platform_1_5().getPathForTool("adb");
+        final String pathForTool =sdkTestSupport.getSdk_with_platform_1_5().getPathForTool("adb").replaceAll(".exe$", "");
         Assert.assertEquals(new File(sdkTestSupport.getEnv_ANDROID_HOME() + "/platform-tools/adb").getAbsolutePath(), pathForTool);
     }
 
     @Test
     public void givenToolAndroidThenPathIsCommon() {
-        final String pathForTool =sdkTestSupport.getSdk_with_platform_1_5().getPathForTool("android");
+        final String pathForTool =sdkTestSupport.getSdk_with_platform_1_5().getPathForTool("android").replaceAll(".bat$", "");;
         Assert.assertEquals(new File(sdkTestSupport.getEnv_ANDROID_HOME() + "/tools/android").getAbsolutePath(), pathForTool);
     }
 
     @Test
     public void givenToolAaptAndPlatform1dot5ThenPathIsPlatformTools() {
         final AndroidSdk sdk = new AndroidSdk(new File(sdkTestSupport.getEnv_ANDROID_HOME()), "3");
-        final String pathForTool = sdk.getPathForTool("aapt");
+        final String pathForTool = sdk.getPathForTool("aapt").replaceAll(".exe$", "");;
         Assert.assertEquals(new File(sdkTestSupport.getEnv_ANDROID_HOME() + "/platform-tools/aapt"), new File(pathForTool));
     }