diff --git a/app/browser/tabs.js b/app/browser/tabs.js
index 835b220646b..2909cc22115 100644
--- a/app/browser/tabs.js
+++ b/app/browser/tabs.js
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ const appActions = require('../../js/actions/appActions')
 const windowActions = require('../../js/actions/windowActions')
 const tabActions = require('../common/actions/tabActions')
 const config = require('../../js/constants/config')
+const {getExtensionsPath} = require('../../js/lib/appUrlUtil')
 const Immutable = require('immutable')
 const { shouldDebugTabEvents } = require('../cmdLine')
 const tabState = require('../common/state/tabState')
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ const bookmarkOrderCache = require('../common/cache/bookmarkOrderCache')
 const ledgerState = require('../common/state/ledgerState')
 const {getWindow} = require('./windows')
 const activeTabHistory = require('./activeTabHistory')
+const path = require('path')
 
 let adBlockRegions
 let currentPartitionNumber = 0
@@ -1015,6 +1017,11 @@ const api = {
           createProperties.isolated_storage = true
           createProperties.parent_partition = ''
           createProperties.tor_proxy = 'socks5://127.0.0.1:9050'
+          if (process.platform === 'win32') {
+            createProperties.tor_path = path.join(getExtensionsPath('bin'), 'tor.exe').quote()
+          } else {
+            createProperties.tor_path = path.join(getExtensionsPath('bin'), 'tor')
+          }
         }
       }
 
diff --git a/app/filtering.js b/app/filtering.js
index d92bf3377a7..9455053ecf4 100644
--- a/app/filtering.js
+++ b/app/filtering.js
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ const hostContentSettings = require('./browser/contentSettings/hostContentSettin
 const downloadStates = require('../js/constants/downloadStates')
 const urlParse = require('./common/urlParse')
 const getSetting = require('../js/settings').getSetting
+const {getExtensionsPath} = require('../js/lib/appUrlUtil')
 const appUrlUtil = require('../js/lib/appUrlUtil')
 const siteSettings = require('../js/state/siteSettings')
 const settings = require('../js/constants/settings')
@@ -691,6 +692,11 @@ const initPartition = (partition) => {
     options.isolated_storage = true
     options.parent_partition = ''
     options.tor_proxy = 'socks5://127.0.0.1:9050'
+    if (process.platform === 'win32') {
+      options.tor_path = path.join(getExtensionsPath('bin'), 'tor.exe').quote()
+    } else {
+      options.tor_path = path.join(getExtensionsPath('bin'), 'tor')
+    }
   }
 
   let ses = session.fromPartition(partition, options)