diff --git a/src/windows/bin/cmdtoargs.c b/src/windows/bin/cmdtoargs.c
index 352b1553a088d06c9f24dbfe9ade12a1b469d8e7..29e5e77ae1ff7f91e58b483974d3d67fc2c9f3a3 100644
--- a/src/windows/bin/cmdtoargs.c
+++ b/src/windows/bin/cmdtoargs.c
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ static char* next_arg(char* cmdline, char* arg, jboolean* wildcard) {
                 }
             }
             dest += copyCh(ch, dest);
+            slashes = 0;
             break;
 
         default:
diff --git a/test/tools/launcher/Arrrghs.java b/test/tools/launcher/Arrrghs.java
index 89893e4b6df1ed574187d58c9fae4b037bd872e6..73d868947e75f7e5766ab28098385f7a291caea3 100644
--- a/test/tools/launcher/Arrrghs.java
+++ b/test/tools/launcher/Arrrghs.java
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 /**
  * @test
  * @bug 5030233 6214916 6356475 6571029 6684582 6742159 4459600 6758881 6753938
- *      6894719 6968053 7151434 7146424 8007333 8077822
+ *      6894719 6968053 7151434 7146424 8007333 8077822 8143640
  * @summary Argument parsing validation.
  * @compile -XDignore.symbol.file Arrrghs.java
  * @run main/othervm Arrrghs
@@ -324,6 +324,8 @@ public class Arrrghs extends TestHelper {
         // more treatment of  mixed slashes
         checkArgumentParsing("f1/ f3\\ f4/", "f1/", "f3\\", "f4/");
         checkArgumentParsing("f1/ f2\' ' f3/ f4/", "f1/", "f2\'", "'", "f3/", "f4/");
+
+        checkArgumentParsing("a\\*\\b", "a\\*\\b");
     }
 
     private void initEmptyDir(File emptyDir) throws IOException {