diff --git a/src/System/Process/Typed.hs b/src/System/Process/Typed.hs
index 731c0f9..57dd9ee 100644
--- a/src/System/Process/Typed.hs
+++ b/src/System/Process/Typed.hs
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ module System.Process.Typed
     ) where
 
 import Control.Exception hiding (bracket, finally)
+import Control.Monad ((>=>), guard)
 import Control.Monad.IO.Class
 import qualified System.Process as P
 import System.IO (hClose)
@@ -256,25 +257,8 @@ startProcess pConfig'@ProcessConfig {..} = liftIO $ do
                       -- Process didn't exit yet, let's terminate it and
                       -- then call waitForProcess ourselves
                       Left _ -> do
-                          eres <- try $ P.terminateProcess pHandle
-                          ec <-
-                            case eres of
-                              Left e
-                                -- On Windows, with the single-threaded runtime, it
-                                -- seems that if a process has already exited, the
-                                -- call to terminateProcess will fail with a
-                                -- permission denied error. To work around this, we
-                                -- catch this exception and then immediately
-                                -- waitForProcess. There's a chance that there may be
-                                -- other reasons for this permission error to appear,
-                                -- in which case this code may allow us to wait too
-                                -- long for a child process instead of erroring out.
-                                -- Recommendation: always use the multi-threaded
-                                -- runtime!
-                                | isPermissionError e && not multiThreadedRuntime && isWindows ->
-                                  P.waitForProcess pHandle
-                                | otherwise -> throwIO e
-                              Right () -> P.waitForProcess pHandle
+                          terminateProcess pHandle
+                          ec <- P.waitForProcess pHandle
                           success <- atomically $ tryPutTMVar pExitCode ec
                           evaluate $ assert success ()
 
@@ -282,6 +266,23 @@ startProcess pConfig'@ProcessConfig {..} = liftIO $ do
   where
     pConfig = clearStreams pConfig'
 
+    terminateProcess :: P.ProcessHandle -> IO ()
+    terminateProcess p = do
+        -- On Windows, with the single-threaded runtime, it seems that if a
+        -- process has already exited, the call to terminateProcess will fail
+        -- with a permission denied error. To work around this, we ignore this
+        -- exception. There's a chance that there may be other reasons for this
+        -- permission error to appear, in which case this code may allow us to
+        -- wait too long for a child process (on a subsequent call to
+        -- `waitForProcess`) instead of erroring out here.
+        -- Recommendation: always use the multi-threaded runtime!
+        ignorePermissionErrorOnSingleThreadedWindows $ P.terminateProcess p
+
+    ignorePermissionErrorOnSingleThreadedWindows :: IO () -> IO ()
+    ignorePermissionErrorOnSingleThreadedWindows = tryJust (guard . p) >=> either return return
+      where
+        p e = isPermissionError e && not multiThreadedRuntime && isWindows
+
 foreign import ccall unsafe "rtsSupportsBoundThreads"
   multiThreadedRuntime :: Bool