It may be a simple thing to give us Windows 7 users the bug fixes without touch screen technology.  

What do you mean? X2a works fine on win7 64 bit. No need for a separate patch ...

I recommend you install X2a if you're on X2

Yes, the X2a patch is for both Win 7 and Win 8. The difference is you won't see the touch features in Win 7 because it doesn't support them.

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Hate to say it but I agree. I have no intentions of switching to 8 or using touchscreen stuff. I'd rather not have all that extra code on my system. Sadly I'm assuming just pulling it out of there wouldn't be very easy.

Atleast one other user and myself are having some issues with using the mouse.  The track faders in track view don't respond to click and drag attmpts.

It was after the 2a patch that this began to happen.

It could be flawed logic but, my logic points to touch screen code.

Every piece of software you own has a ton of code and features that you never use. Not worth worrying about IMO, and the amount of RAM/HD space it takes is negligible. 

@sharke... Ah... but on my DAW I have next to nothing installed aside from audio stuff specifically to avoid weirdness. I'm not worried about disk space. More worried about the extra bits and bytes for the touchscreen stuff dorking around. We have seen quite a few weird problems that do not seem to be user error this go around. You gotta figure Win 8 is new... the touchscreen stuff is new... the a patch is treading new ground in both those areas. This is essentially like a new release that has not yet been through user testing/reporting because of that. 

X2 has been working reasonably well right from the start and the QuickFix didn't conjure up a ton of threads reporting odd behavior so I've installed that. I'm just not willing to sacrifice any time troubleshooting right now when I'm not experiencing any showstoppers.

I am however bookmarking threads that describe workarounds for all the various problems with the a patch so I can get a better idea of what to do if I install it and things do go sideways. They are all very technical though and beyond my personal comfort level so I'm just gonna keep doing what I'm doing and hope the a patch gets patched before I need it.

Overabundance of caution, yanno?

Cheers.