diff --git a/tools/stress/bin/stress.bat b/tools/stress/bin/stress.bat
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+@REM  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+@REM  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+@REM  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+@REM  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+@REM  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+@REM  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+@REM
+@REM      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+@REM
+@REM  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+@REM  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+@REM  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+@REM  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+@REM  limitations under the License.
+
+if NOT DEFINED CASSANDRA_HOME set CASSANDRA_HOME=%CD%\..\..
+if NOT DEFINED STRESS_HOME set STRESS_HOME=%CD%
+
+set CLASSPATH="%STRESS_HOME%\build\classes"
+set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;"%CASSANDRA_HOME%\build\classes\main"
+set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;"%CASSANDRA_HOME%\build\classes\thrift"
+for %%i in ("%CASSANDRA_HOME%\lib\*.jar") do call :append "%%i"
+    set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;"%%i"
+goto start
+
+:append
+set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%1
+goto :eof
+
+:start
+"%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java" -cp %CLASSPATH% org.apache.cassandra.stress.Stress %*