diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 432f35af6d..6d2eb08b05 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -360,6 +360,10 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-2621. Simplify the output when the user doesn't have the access for
     getDomain(s). (Zhijie Shen via jianhe)
 
+    YARN-2682. Updated WindowsSecureContainerExecutor to not use
+    DefaultContainerExecutor#getFirstApplicationDir and use getWorkingDir()
+    instead. (Zhihai Xu via jianhe) 
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/DefaultContainerExecutor.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/DefaultContainerExecutor.java
index 5d1e3df550..2e1d94d1bc 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/DefaultContainerExecutor.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/DefaultContainerExecutor.java
@@ -462,11 +462,6 @@ public void deleteAsUser(String user, Path subDir, Path... baseDirs)
    * $logdir/$user/$appId */
   static final short LOGDIR_PERM = (short)0710;
 
-  protected Path getFirstApplicationDir(List<String> localDirs, String user,
-      String appId) {
-    return getApplicationDir(new Path(localDirs.get(0)), user, appId);
-  }
-
   private long getDiskFreeSpace(Path base) throws IOException {
     return lfs.getFsStatus(base).getRemaining();
   }
@@ -489,7 +484,7 @@ private Path getFileCacheDir(Path base, String user) {
         ContainerLocalizer.FILECACHE);
   }
 
-  private Path getWorkingDir(List<String> localDirs, String user,
+  protected Path getWorkingDir(List<String> localDirs, String user,
       String appId) throws IOException {
     Path appStorageDir = null;
     long totalAvailable = 0L;
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/WindowsSecureContainerExecutor.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/WindowsSecureContainerExecutor.java
index 30beaf8da3..fc6c64f530 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/WindowsSecureContainerExecutor.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/WindowsSecureContainerExecutor.java
@@ -115,9 +115,8 @@ public void startLocalizer(Path nmPrivateContainerTokens,
      createUserCacheDirs(localDirs, user);
      createAppDirs(localDirs, user, appId);
      createAppLogDirs(appId, logDirs, user);
-     
-     // TODO: Why pick first app dir. The same in LCE why not random?
-     Path appStorageDir = getFirstApplicationDir(localDirs, user, appId);
+
+     Path appStorageDir = getWorkingDir(localDirs, user, appId);
 
      String tokenFn = String.format(ContainerLocalizer.TOKEN_FILE_NAME_FMT, locId);
      Path tokenDst = new Path(appStorageDir, tokenFn);