diff --git a/.github/workflows/windows.yml b/.github/workflows/windows.yml
index 0f13a930fc80c4..7264d293063ef0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/windows.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/windows.yml
@@ -16,16 +16,9 @@ jobs:
       with:
         submodules: recursive
         # master
-        ref: b0ffec48be69bedeed3d1e669ca2844288e5825f
+        ref: 7ca4f07a3c4ea32ae800c93098a187ec7bd42efa
         fetch-depth: 0
 
-    # required for CMAKE_MSVC_RUNTIME_LIBRARY
-    - name: Patch target cmake version
-      run: |
-        python -c "f=open('cmake/developer_package/api_validator/api_validator.cmake','r+b');s=f.read();insert_str=b'set(UWP_API_VALIDATOR \"\")\n    ';point=s.index(b'if(UWP_API_VALIDATOR)');s=s[:point]+insert_str+s[point:];f.seek(0);f.write(s);f.truncate();f.close()"
-        python -c "f=open('CMakeLists.txt','r+b');s=f.read();start_str=b'cmake_minimum_required(VERSION ';start=s.rindex(start_str);end=s.index(b')',start);s=s[:start]+start_str+b'3.15'+s[end:];f.seek(0);f.write(s);f.truncate();f.close()"
-        python -c "f=open('src/plugins/intel_gpu/thirdparty/onednn_gpu/CMakeLists.txt','r+b');s=f.read();start_str=b'cmake_minimum_required(VERSION ';start=s.index(start_str);end=s.index(b')',start);s=s[:start]+start_str+b'3.15'+s[end:];f.seek(0);f.write(s);f.truncate();f.close()"
-
     - name: Setup MSVC
       uses: ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd@v1
 
@@ -42,7 +35,7 @@ jobs:
         -D ENABLE_NCC_STYLE=OFF -D ENABLE_CLANG_FORMAT=OFF -D ENABLE_CPPLINT=OFF
         -D THREADING=TBB -D ENABLE_INTEL_CPU=ON
         -D ENABLE_INTEL_GPU=ON -D ENABLE_ONEDNN_FOR_GPU=ON -D OPENCL_ICD_LOADER_DISABLE_OPENCLON12=ON
-        -D ENABLE_INTEL_GNA=OFF
+        -D ENABLE_INTEL_NPU=ON
         -D ENABLE_MULTI=ON -D ENABLE_AUTO=ON -D ENABLE_AUTO_BATCH=ON -D ENABLE_HETERO=ON -D ENABLE_TEMPLATE=OFF
         -D ENABLE_OV_ONNX_FRONTEND=ON -D ENABLE_OV_TF_FRONTEND=ON -D ENABLE_OV_PADDLE_FRONTEND=OFF