diff --git a/hack/.staticcheck_failures b/hack/.staticcheck_failures
index eb72008a67a..a90443e253d 100644
--- a/hack/.staticcheck_failures
+++ b/hack/.staticcheck_failures
@@ -79,7 +79,6 @@ test/e2e/storage/utils
 test/e2e/storage/vsphere
 test/e2e/upgrades
 test/e2e/upgrades/storage
-test/e2e/windows
 test/images/agnhost/dns
 test/images/agnhost/inclusterclient
 test/images/agnhost/net/nat
diff --git a/test/e2e/windows/BUILD b/test/e2e/windows/BUILD
index 7919d013b9a..4732b8e856f 100644
--- a/test/e2e/windows/BUILD
+++ b/test/e2e/windows/BUILD
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ go_library(
         "//staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/tools/cache:go_default_library",
         "//staging/src/k8s.io/kubelet/config/v1beta1:go_default_library",
         "//test/e2e/framework:go_default_library",
-        "//test/e2e/framework/kubelet:go_default_library",
         "//test/e2e/framework/metrics:go_default_library",
         "//test/e2e/framework/network:go_default_library",
         "//test/e2e/framework/node:go_default_library",
diff --git a/test/e2e/windows/density.go b/test/e2e/windows/density.go
index 6e4a7e52dfa..9b96adf1b2a 100644
--- a/test/e2e/windows/density.go
+++ b/test/e2e/windows/density.go
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/watch"
 	"k8s.io/client-go/tools/cache"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework"
-	e2ekubelet "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework/kubelet"
 	e2emetrics "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework/metrics"
 	e2epod "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework/pod"
 	imageutils "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/utils/image"
@@ -75,8 +74,6 @@ var _ = SIGDescribe("[Feature:Windows] Density [Serial] [Slow]", func() {
 type densityTest struct {
 	// number of pods
 	podsNr int
-	// number of background pods
-	bgPodsNr int
 	// interval between creating pod (rate control)
 	interval time.Duration
 	// create pods in 'batch' or 'sequence'
@@ -84,8 +81,6 @@ type densityTest struct {
 	// API QPS limit
 	APIQPSLimit int
 	// performance limits
-	cpuLimits            e2ekubelet.ContainersCPUSummary
-	memLimits            e2ekubelet.ResourceUsagePerContainer
 	podStartupLimits     e2emetrics.LatencyMetric
 	podBatchStartupLimit time.Duration
 }
@@ -97,7 +92,7 @@ func runDensityBatchTest(f *framework.Framework, testArg densityTest) (time.Dura
 	)
 	var (
 		mutex      = &sync.Mutex{}
-		watchTimes = make(map[string]metav1.Time, 0)
+		watchTimes = make(map[string]metav1.Time)
 		stopCh     = make(chan struct{})
 	)
 
@@ -278,5 +273,4 @@ func deletePodsSync(f *framework.Framework, pods []*v1.Pod) {
 		}(pod)
 	}
 	wg.Wait()
-	return
 }
diff --git a/test/e2e/windows/dns.go b/test/e2e/windows/dns.go
index d0ecf22064b..e986e749746 100644
--- a/test/e2e/windows/dns.go
+++ b/test/e2e/windows/dns.go
@@ -28,9 +28,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/onsi/ginkgo"
 )
 
-const dnsTestPodHostName = "dns-querier-1"
-const dnsTestServiceName = "dns-test-service"
-
 var _ = SIGDescribe("DNS", func() {
 
 	ginkgo.BeforeEach(func() {
@@ -76,6 +73,7 @@ var _ = SIGDescribe("DNS", func() {
 
 		framework.Logf("ipconfig /all:\n%s", stdout)
 		dnsRegex, err := regexp.Compile(`DNS Servers[\s*.]*:(\s*[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3})+`)
+		framework.ExpectNoError(err)
 
 		if dnsRegex.MatchString(stdout) {
 			match := dnsRegex.FindString(stdout)