diff --git a/deluge/ui/console/cmdline/command.py b/deluge/ui/console/cmdline/command.py
index a59b90e69..262182bfe 100644
--- a/deluge/ui/console/cmdline/command.py
+++ b/deluge/ui/console/cmdline/command.py
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ import shlex
 
 from twisted.internet import defer
 
-from deluge.common import windows_check
 from deluge.ui.client import client
 from deluge.ui.console.parser import OptionParser, OptionParserError
 from deluge.ui.console.utils.colors import strip_colors
@@ -167,8 +166,7 @@ class BaseCommand(object):
         return self.__doc__
 
     def split(self, text):
-        if windows_check():
-            text = text.replace('\\', '\\\\')
+        text = text.replace('\\', '\\\\')
         result = shlex.split(text)
         for i, s in enumerate(result):
             result[i] = s.replace(r'\ ', ' ')
diff --git a/deluge/ui/console/cmdline/commands/config.py b/deluge/ui/console/cmdline/commands/config.py
index dae25ee4f..d9132d739 100644
--- a/deluge/ui/console/cmdline/commands/config.py
+++ b/deluge/ui/console/cmdline/commands/config.py
@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ def atom(src, token):
         return False
     elif token[0] is tokenize.STRING or token[1] == '/':
         return token[-1].decode('string-escape')
+    elif token[1].isalpha():
+        # Parse Windows paths e.g. 'C:\\xyz' or 'C:/xyz'.
+        if next()[1] == ':' and next()[1] in '\/':
+            return token[-1].decode('string-escape')
 
     raise SyntaxError('malformed expression (%s)' % token[1])
 
diff --git a/deluge/ui/console/main.py b/deluge/ui/console/main.py
index 35d83e831..0435a805a 100644
--- a/deluge/ui/console/main.py
+++ b/deluge/ui/console/main.py
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ class EventLog(component.Component):
                    (state, t_name, torrent_id))
 
     def on_torrent_finished_event(self, torrent_id):
-        if not deluge.common.windows_check() and component.get('TorrentList').config['ring_bell']:
+        if component.get('TorrentList').config['ring_bell']:
             import curses.beep
             curses.beep()
         self.write('{!info!}Torrent Finished: %s ({!cyan!}%s{!info!})' %