diff --git a/addon/globalPlugins/resourceMonitor/__init__.py b/addon/globalPlugins/resourceMonitor/__init__.py
index a3b5c79a..ff681e20 100644
--- a/addon/globalPlugins/resourceMonitor/__init__.py
+++ b/addon/globalPlugins/resourceMonitor/__init__.py
@@ -3,7 +3,10 @@
 #Authors: Alex Hall, Joseph Lee, Beqa Gozalishvili, Tuukka Ojala
 # Copyright 2013-2017, released under GPL.
 
-import _winreg as winreg # Python 3 compatibility.
+try:
+	import winreg #Python 3
+except ImportError:
+	import _winreg as winreg # Python 2
 from datetime import datetime
 import sys
 import os