diff --git a/src/OGAgentUser.py b/src/OGAgentUser.py
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
diff --git a/src/VERSION b/src/VERSION
index 1892b92..31e5c84 100644
--- a/src/VERSION
+++ b/src/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.3.2
+1.3.3
diff --git a/src/opengnsys/modules/server/OpenGnSys/__init__.py b/src/opengnsys/modules/server/OpenGnSys/__init__.py
index 15e5344..d7854d4 100644
--- a/src/opengnsys/modules/server/OpenGnSys/__init__.py
+++ b/src/opengnsys/modules/server/OpenGnSys/__init__.py
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ class OpenGnSysWorker(ServerWorker):
                     break
         # Raise error after timeout
         if not self.interface:
+            ## UnboundLocalError: cannot access local variable 'e' where it is not associated with a value
             raise e
 
         # Loop to send initialization message
@@ -332,11 +333,23 @@ class OpenGnSysWorker(ServerWorker):
         :return: JSON object {"op": "launched"}
         """
         logger.debug('Processing script request')
-        # Decoding script (Windows scripts need a subprocess call per line)
+        # Decoding script
         script = urllib.parse.unquote(base64.b64decode(post_params.get('script')).decode('utf-8'))
+        logger.debug('received script {}'.format(script))
         if operations.os_type == 'Windows':
-            script = 'import subprocess; {0}'.format(
-                ';'.join(['subprocess.check_output({0},shell=True)'.format(repr(c)) for c in script.split('\n')]))
+            ## for windows, we turn the script into utf16le, then to b64 again, and feed the blob to powershell
+            u16 = script.encode ('utf-16le')                 ## utf16
+            b64 = base64.b64encode (u16).decode ('utf-8')    ## b64 (which returns bytes, so we need an additional decode(utf8))
+            script = """
+import os
+import tempfile
+import subprocess
+cp = subprocess.run ("powershell -WindowStyle Hidden -EncodedCommand {}", capture_output=True)
+subprocs_log = os.path.join (tempfile.gettempdir(), 'opengnsys-subprocs.log')
+with open (subprocs_log, 'ab') as fd:    ## TODO improve this logging
+    fd.write (cp.stdout)
+    fd.write (cp.stderr)
+""".format (b64)
         else:
             script = 'import subprocess; subprocess.check_output("""{0}""",shell=True)'.format(script)
         # Executing script.