diff --git a/testing/mozharness/mozharness/mozilla/testing/talos.py b/testing/mozharness/mozharness/mozilla/testing/talos.py
index 45dcf6191006..8f0748afd2c3 100755
--- a/testing/mozharness/mozharness/mozilla/testing/talos.py
+++ b/testing/mozharness/mozharness/mozilla/testing/talos.py
@@ -414,14 +414,14 @@ class Talos(TestingMixin, MercurialScript, BlobUploadMixin):
             self.fatal("Talos requires a path to the binary.  You can specify binary_path or add download-and-extract to your action list.")
 
         # talos options
-        options = ['-v', ]  # hardcoded options (for now)
+        options = []
         if self.config.get('python_webserver', True):
             options.append('--develop')
         # talos can't gather data if the process name ends with '.exe'
         if binary_path.endswith('.exe'):
             binary_path = binary_path[:-4]
-        kw_options = {'output': 'talos.yml',  # options overwritten from **kw
-                      'executablePath': binary_path}
+        # options overwritten from **kw
+        kw_options = {'executablePath': binary_path}
         kw_options['activeTests'] = self.query_tests()
         if self.config.get('title'):
             kw_options['title'] = self.config['title']
diff --git a/testing/talos/talos.json b/testing/talos/talos.json
index 55c5e1d75787..f9d09809a32b 100644
--- a/testing/talos/talos.json
+++ b/testing/talos/talos.json
@@ -149,8 +149,7 @@
             },
             "talos_options": [
                 "--xperf_path",
-                "\"c:/Program Files/Microsoft Windows Performance Toolkit/xperf.exe\"",
-                "C:/slave/talos-data/talos/xperf.config"
+                "\"c:/Program Files/Microsoft Windows Performance Toolkit/xperf.exe\""
             ]
         },
         "xperf-e10s": {