diff --git a/packages/@react-native-windows/cli/src/utils/msbuildtools.ts b/packages/@react-native-windows/cli/src/utils/msbuildtools.ts
index b4cae081f1f..479fbed6974 100644
--- a/packages/@react-native-windows/cli/src/utils/msbuildtools.ts
+++ b/packages/@react-native-windows/cli/src/utils/msbuildtools.ts
@@ -45,11 +45,11 @@ export default class MSBuildTools {
   }
 
   cleanProject(slnFile: string) {
-    const cmd = `"${path.join(
-      this.msbuildPath(),
-      'msbuild.exe',
-    )}" "${slnFile}" /t:Clean`;
-    const results = child_process.execSync(cmd).toString().split(EOL);
+    const msbuild = path.join(this.msbuildPath(), 'msbuild.exe');
+    const results = child_process
+      .execFileSync(msbuild, [slnFile, '/t:Clean'])
+      .toString()
+      .split(EOL);
     results.forEach(result => console.log(chalk.white(result)));
   }
 
diff --git a/packages/@react-native-windows/cli/src/utils/winappdeploytool.ts b/packages/@react-native-windows/cli/src/utils/winappdeploytool.ts
index 4ba83172700..b2cbeb526f4 100644
--- a/packages/@react-native-windows/cli/src/utils/winappdeploytool.ts
+++ b/packages/@react-native-windows/cli/src/utils/winappdeploytool.ts
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ export default class WinAppDeployTool {
       newSpinner(text),
       text,
       this.path,
-      `uninstall -package ${appName} -ip {$targetDevice.ip}`.split(' '),
+      ['uninstall', '-package', appName, '-ip', targetDevice.ip],
       verbose,
       'UninstallAppOnDeviceFailure',
     );