diff --git a/.github/workflows/codeql.yml b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
index 4cf2646..b93fbe8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ jobs:
           languages: ${{ matrix.language }}
           queries: +security-and-quality
 
-      - name: Autobuild
-        uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@v3
+      - name: Build
+        run: dotnet build --nologo --verbosity minimal -c Release
 
       - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
         uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v3
diff --git a/.github/workflows/dotnet-desktop.yml b/.github/workflows/dotnet-desktop.yml
index 7fedccd..7e6b333 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/dotnet-desktop.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/dotnet-desktop.yml
@@ -6,15 +6,9 @@ jobs:
   build:
     runs-on: windows-latest
     steps:
-    - id: signtool
-      name: Find signtool.exe
-      shell: cmd
-      run: where /f /r "%programfiles(x86)%\windows kits\10\bin" signtool.exe|for /f "delims=" %%s in ('find "\x64\"') do @echo signtool=%%s > %GITHUB_OUTPUT%
-      
+
     - name: Checkout
       uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      with:
-        fetch-depth: 0
 
     # Install the .NET Core workload
     - name: Install .NET 8 SDK