diff --git a/killwine.sh b/killwine.sh
index 7e1544b..b77011c 100644
--- a/killwine.sh
+++ b/killwine.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-#kill wineserver
+#terminate wineserver
 wineserver -k;
-killall -9 wine wineserver;
 #kill every exe process
 for i in `ps ax|grep -E "\.exe"|awk '{print $1 }'`;do kill -9 $i;done;
+#kill wineserver if it didn't terminate
+#(might corrupt Wine's registry if wineserver was still running)
+sleep 1
+killall -9 wine wineserver;
 echo 'killed wine'