diff --git a/app-shell/src/system-info/__tests__/usb-devices.test.ts b/app-shell/src/system-info/__tests__/usb-devices.test.ts
index 101da496671..1ae63e9776c 100644
--- a/app-shell/src/system-info/__tests__/usb-devices.test.ts
+++ b/app-shell/src/system-info/__tests__/usb-devices.test.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { usb } from 'usb'
 
 import * as Fixtures from '@opentrons/app/src/redux/system-info/__fixtures__'
 import { createUsbDeviceMonitor, getWindowsDriverVersion } from '../usb-devices'
+import { isWindows } from '../../os'
 
 jest.mock('execa')
 jest.mock('usb')
@@ -76,7 +77,9 @@ const mockUSBDevice = {
   close: usbDeviceClose,
 }
 
-describe('app-shell::system-info::usb-devices', () => {
+const describeIfNotWindows = isWindows() ? describe.skip : describe
+
+describeIfNotWindows('app-shell::system-info::usb-devices::detection', () => {
   const { windowsDriverVersion: _, ...mockDevice } = Fixtures.mockUsbDevice
   afterEach(() => {
     jest.resetAllMocks()
@@ -194,6 +197,13 @@ describe('app-shell::system-info::usb-devices', () => {
         reject(new Error('detachListener was not created'))
       }
     }))
+})
+
+describe('app-shell::system-info::usb-devices', () => {
+  const { windowsDriverVersion: _, ...mockDevice } = Fixtures.mockUsbDevice
+  afterEach(() => {
+    jest.resetAllMocks()
+  })
 
   it('can get the Windows driver version of a device', () => {
     execaCommand.mockResolvedValue({ stdout: '1.2.3' } as any)
diff --git a/app-shell/src/system-info/usb-devices.ts b/app-shell/src/system-info/usb-devices.ts
index 568e39a4497..30ed5a53dc2 100644
--- a/app-shell/src/system-info/usb-devices.ts
+++ b/app-shell/src/system-info/usb-devices.ts
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ function upstreamDeviceFromUsbDeviceWinAPI(
   // pid
   return execa
     .command(
-      `Get-WmiObject Win32_PnpEntity -Filter "DeviceId like '%\\VID_${idVendor(
+      `Get-WmiObject Win32_PnpEntity -Filter "DeviceId like '%\\\\VID_${idVendor(
         device
       )}&PID_${idProduct(
         device
@@ -228,15 +228,20 @@ function upstreamDeviceFromUsbDeviceLibUSB(
       ]
     })
     .finally(() => {
-      try {
-        device.close()
-      } catch (err) {
-        log.warn(
-          `Failed to close vid=${idVendor(device)}, pid=${idProduct(
-            device
-          )} in err handler: ${err}`
-        )
-      }
+      setImmediate(() => {
+        try {
+          device.close()
+          log.info(
+            `closed vid=${idVendor(device)}, pid=${idProduct(device)} ok`
+          )
+        } catch (err) {
+          log.info(
+            `failed to close vid=${idVendor(device)}, pid=${idProduct(
+              device
+            )}: ${err}`
+          )
+        }
+      })
     })
 }