You're running anything serious on an antique like that?! My phone is more powerful than computers that were contemporaneous with Windows 2000. There has to be a lower bound of support somewhere, and your old Studebaker is below it.
As said, it does all its work perfectly fine. Leave the imaginative problems which you assume I'm having to me and play with your phone.
That's not to say that your simple change couldn't be added; the problem is it can't be tested and verified because the rest of us can't lay hands on Windows 2000 without significant time or expense.
Again, as said, Matt worked on that for v0.3.24 and I successfully tested the fixed binary. It's an official MS fix and the only problem was compiler-related.