diff --git a/taskcluster/ci/fetch/updatebot.yml b/taskcluster/ci/fetch/updatebot.yml
index 82b402b8a337..f7795934bfd7 100644
--- a/taskcluster/ci/fetch/updatebot.yml
+++ b/taskcluster/ci/fetch/updatebot.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ php-windows-7.4.24:
     description: VC15 x64 Non Thread Safe (2021-Sep-21 16:58:34)
     fetch:
         type: static-url
-        url: https://windows.php.net/downloads/releases/archives/php-7.4.24-nts-Win32-vc15-x64.zip
+        url: https://windows.php.net/downloads/releases/php-7.4.24-nts-Win32-vc15-x64.zip
         sha256: 1e93fb390ab2761a47d27c97225a518759731c632c0dd87436cbf25f19582436
         size: 26067094
         artifact-name: php.tar.zst
@@ -25,9 +25,3 @@ arcanist:
         type: git
         repo: https://github.com/phacility/arcanist.git
         revision: a028291f8e5e79b6446ad67ed8b0be9c5ec8f029
-depot_tools:
-    description: Google's depot_tools package
-    fetch:
-        type: git
-        repo: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git
-        revision: 7b3351443198f4e7d068999b169385b55a43679a
diff --git a/taskcluster/ci/updatebot/kind.yml b/taskcluster/ci/updatebot/kind.yml
index bb90c5277ebb..dd059ac120e5 100644
--- a/taskcluster/ci/updatebot/kind.yml
+++ b/taskcluster/ci/updatebot/kind.yml
@@ -84,14 +84,7 @@ jobs:
             max-run-time: 3600
             taskcluster-proxy: true
             env:
-                TOOLTOOL_MANIFEST: "taskcluster/ci/updatebot/tooltool-manifests/updatebot.manifest"
-                MSYSTEM: "MINGW64"
-# begin _GENERATE_DEPOT_TOOLS_BINARIES_
-#            artifacts:
-#                - type: directory
-#                  name: public/depot_tools.zip
-#                  path: build\src\obj-build\depot_tools
-# end _GENERATE_DEPOT_TOOLS_BINARIES_
+                TOOLTOOL_MANIFEST: "taskcluster/ci/updatebot/tooltool-manifests/vc++-2019-runtime.manifest"
         run:
             using: run-task
             cwd: '{checkout}'
@@ -110,4 +103,3 @@ jobs:
                 - cloud-sql-proxy-1.25.0
                 - php-windows-7.4.24
                 - arcanist
-                - depot_tools
diff --git a/taskcluster/ci/updatebot/tooltool-manifests/updatebot.manifest b/taskcluster/ci/updatebot/tooltool-manifests/updatebot.manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index f284d80914bf..000000000000
--- a/taskcluster/ci/updatebot/tooltool-manifests/updatebot.manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-[
-  {
-    "version": "vcruntime140.dll from Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2019 ver 14.29.30133.0",
-    "size": 97160,
-    "visibility": "internal",
-    "digest": "aa6afd6bea27f554e3646152d8c4f96f7bcaaa4933f8b7c04346e410f93f23cfa6d29362fd5d51ccbb8b6223e094cd89e351f072ad0517553703f5bf9de28778",
-    "algorithm": "sha512",
-    "filename": "vcruntime140.dll",
-    "unpack": false
-  },
-  {
-    "version": "Visual Studio Community 2019, Windows SDK 10.0.19041.0, and a few system dlls Lobotmized for Angle Update",
-    "filename": "vs-sdk-and-windir-shim.zip",
-    "size": 463564917,
-    "algorithm": "sha512",
-    "digest": "20d93b0014ca44a666ca2b5cc570127f24378454889ff0a036df72213cd18140185d2c2e61df40bf1e4c0d9d2dc83a7796af9d2a13252de3c85faad068291945",
-    "visibility": "internal",
-    "unpack": true
-  },
-  {
-    "version": "Windows binaries for depot_tools retrieved with depot_tools revision 7b3351443198f4e7d068999b169385b55a43679a on 2021-12-18",
-    "filename": "depot_tools-preloaded-binaries-7b3351443198f4e7d068999b169385b55a43679a-2021-12-18.zip",
-    "size": 315038144,
-    "algorithm": "sha512",
-    "digest": "250f3f3fcf631c53de1f505c53eb5ba782864fa92111eef0d710a1e7d0ad3da66db2fb8908d7c6d83e149674e976984d679f9a641eb9bea0b5c3d7b4f236920d",
-    "visibility": "internal",
-    "unpack": true
-  }
-]
diff --git a/taskcluster/ci/updatebot/tooltool-manifests/vc++-2019-runtime.manifest b/taskcluster/ci/updatebot/tooltool-manifests/vc++-2019-runtime.manifest
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..34bc9f54d949
--- /dev/null
+++ b/taskcluster/ci/updatebot/tooltool-manifests/vc++-2019-runtime.manifest
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+[
+  {
+    "version": "vcruntime140.dll from Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2019 ver 14.29.30133.0",
+    "size": 97160,
+    "visibility": "internal",
+    "digest": "aa6afd6bea27f554e3646152d8c4f96f7bcaaa4933f8b7c04346e410f93f23cfa6d29362fd5d51ccbb8b6223e094cd89e351f072ad0517553703f5bf9de28778",
+    "algorithm": "sha512",
+    "filename": "vcruntime140.dll",
+    "unpack": false
+  }
+]
diff --git a/taskcluster/docker/updatebot/arcanist_patch_size.patch b/taskcluster/docker/updatebot/arcanist_patch_size.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 7540c76fbd29..000000000000
--- a/taskcluster/docker/updatebot/arcanist_patch_size.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/src/workflow/ArcanistDiffWorkflow.php b/src/workflow/ArcanistDiffWorkflow.php
-index 38aa4b62..c9b7e215 100644
---- a/src/workflow/ArcanistDiffWorkflow.php
-+++ b/src/workflow/ArcanistDiffWorkflow.php
-@@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ EOTEXT
-       throw new Exception(pht('Repository API is not supported.'));
-     }
- 
--    $limit = 1024 * 1024 * 4;
-+    $limit = 1024 * 1024 * 12;
-     foreach ($changes as $change) {
-       $size = 0;
-       foreach ($change->getHunks() as $hunk) {
diff --git a/taskcluster/docker/updatebot/windows-setup.sh b/taskcluster/docker/updatebot/windows-setup.sh
index 50b2283287f0..e24c9946a794 100644
--- a/taskcluster/docker/updatebot/windows-setup.sh
+++ b/taskcluster/docker/updatebot/windows-setup.sh
@@ -20,29 +20,9 @@ MOZ_FETCHES_PATH="$PWD"
 #########################################################
 # Install dependencies
 
-# Move depot_tools
-cd "$MOZ_FETCHES_DIR"
-mv depot_tools.git depot_tools
-
-
-# Generating a new version of the preloaded depot_tools download can be done by:
-# 1) Running the task, uncommenting the variable assignment below, uncommenting the 
-#    _GENERATE_DEPOT_TOOLS_BINARIES_ section in taskcluster/ci/updatebot/kind.yml,
-#    and ensuring that an angle update will actually take place (so it downloads the depot_tools)
-# 2) Downloading and sanity-checking the depot_tools-preloaded-binaries-GIT_HASH-DATE.zip artifact
-# 3) Adding it to tooltool
-# 4) Updating the updatebot manifest
-# Note that even for the same git revision the downloaded tools can change, so they are tagged
-# with both the git hash and the date it was generated
-
-# export GENERATE_DEPOT_TOOLS_BINARIES=1
-
-if test -n "$GENERATE_DEPOT_TOOLS_BINARIES"; then
-    cp -r depot_tools depot_tools-from-git
-fi
-
 # Git is at /c/Program Files/Git/cmd/git.exe
 #  It's in PATH for this script (confusingly) but not in PATH so we need to add it
+which git
 export PATH="/c/Program Files/Git/cmd:$PATH"
 
 # php & arcanist
@@ -55,12 +35,15 @@ cp "$GECKO_PATH/taskcluster/docker/updatebot/windows-php.ini" "$MOZ_FETCHES_DIR/
 
 cd "$MOZ_FETCHES_DIR/arcanist.git"
 patch -p1 < "$GECKO_PATH/taskcluster/docker/updatebot/arcanist_windows_stream.patch"
-patch -p1 < "$GECKO_PATH/taskcluster/docker/updatebot/arcanist_patch_size.patch"
 cd "$MOZ_FETCHES_DIR"
 
 export PATH="$MOZ_FETCHES_PATH/php-win:$PATH"
 export PATH="$MOZ_FETCHES_PATH/arcanist.git/bin:$PATH"
 
+
+
+ls "$MOZ_FETCHES_PATH/arcanist.git/bin"
+
 # get Updatebot
 cd "$MOZ_FETCHES_DIR"
 git clone https://github.com/mozilla-services/updatebot.git
@@ -97,39 +80,6 @@ export PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
 cd "$UPDATEBOT_PATH"
 python3 -m poetry run python3 ./automation.py
 
-#########################################################
-if test -n "$GENERATE_DEPOT_TOOLS_BINARIES"; then
-    # Artifacts
-
-    cd "$MOZ_FETCHES_PATH"
-    mv depot_tools depot_tools-from-tc
-
-    # Clean out unneeded files
-    # Need to use cmd because for some reason rm from bash throws 'Access Denied'
-    cmd '/c for /d /r %i in (*__pycache__) do rmdir /s /q %i'
-    rm -rf depot_tools-from-git/.git || true
-
-    # Delete the files that are already in git
-    find depot_tools-from-git -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 | sed s/depot_tools-from-git/depot_tools-from-tc/ | while read d; do rm -rf $d; done
-
-    # Make the artifact
-    rm -rf depot_tools-preloaded-binaries #remove it if it existed (i.e. we probably have one from tooltool already)
-    mv depot_tools-from-tc depot_tools-preloaded-binaries
-
-    # zip can't add symbolic links, and exits with an error code. || true avoids a script crash
-    zip -r depot_tools-preloaded-binaries.zip depot_tools-preloaded-binaries/ || true
-
-    # Convoluted way to get the git hash, because we don't have a .git directory
-    # Adding extra print statements just in case we need to debug it
-    GIT_HASH=$(grep depot_tools -A 1 "$GECKO_PATH/taskcluster/ci/fetch/updatebot.yml" | tee /dev/tty | grep revision | tee /dev/tty | awk -F': *' '{print $2}' | tee /dev/tty)
-    DATE=$(date -I)
-    mv depot_tools-preloaded-binaries.zip "depot_tools-preloaded-binaries-$GIT_HASH-$DATE.zip"
-
-    # Put the artifact into the directory we will look for it
-    mkdir -p "$GECKO_PATH/obj-build/depot_tools" || true
-    mv "depot_tools-preloaded-binaries-$GIT_HASH-$DATE.zip" "$GECKO_PATH/obj-build/depot_tools"
-fi
-
 #########################################################
 echo "Killing SQL Proxy"
 taskkill -f -im cloud_sql_proxy.exe || true