Virustotal convinced me that my wdidle3 copy is clean. So I created a FreeDOS boot CD and run wdidle3. I reported a timer value of 8.0 seconds. The command line option for disabling the timer at all is “/D”. However, the timer is not entirely disabled but set to 62 minutes idle time - a limit that will never be exceeded.
Now here comes the good news: no increase for Load Cycle Count since 4 hours! 
