Tell me more about that timer issue..
Remember that ancient latitude d610? It's still running the Vista installation made in early 2014, mo BSODs faced and no slowdowns, actually what happened through time is getting performance boost, I upgraded the memory to 2GB and the starter edition was able to address them all and use them all, only issue faced was with the windows updates service using so much CPU utilization, it doesn't do that now though., it will run it until somewhen next year, it maybe before the last day of support or on the day or after it, but idk what am I going to run next, I may try messing with Windows 10 or try ubuntu, I'd love to use the original Windows Vista as much as I want to use iOS 6.1.3 on my iPad2 but I believe that time is up for it, and fir sure I'm going to miss it, I'll just use it's modern counterpart (aka: 10) , it's Windows NT 6.3 (they renamed it 10 but it's actually 6.3, was messing with the registry once upon a time and found that), so 10 is actually Vista + a truckload of new features and under the hood improvements, interesting to see our Vista running on modern PCs (while most people don't know that it's actually Vista, afterall it's NT 6.x) runs on modern phones, and on a popular gaming console, the OS that the majority of people used to hate is actually everywhere and used by nearly everyone whether it was 7 or 8/8.1 or 10 (or the original Vista) isn't that ironic?