diff --git a/core/io/files/files.factor b/core/io/files/files.factor
index f2a212a403..6725481cb1 100644
--- a/core/io/files/files.factor
+++ b/core/io/files/files.factor
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 ! Copyright (C) 2004, 2009 Slava Pestov, Daniel Ehrenberg.
 ! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
-USING: alien.strings continuations init io io.backend
-io.encodings io.encodings.utf8 io.files.private io.pathnames
+USING: alien.strings init io io.backend io.encodings io.pathnames
 kernel kernel.private namespaces sequences splitting system ;
 IN: io.files
 
@@ -92,7 +91,7 @@ PRIVATE>
 
 [
     cwd current-directory set-global
-    OBJ-IMAGE special-object alien>native-string cwd prepend-path \ image-path set-global
-    OBJ-EXECUTABLE special-object alien>native-string cwd prepend-path \ vm-path set-global
+    OBJ-IMAGE special-object alien>native-string \ image-path set-global
+    OBJ-EXECUTABLE special-object alien>native-string \ vm-path set-global
     init-resource-path
 ] "io.files" add-startup-hook