Getting MC6 to run on Windows 7?

MC6 runs clean in Windows 7.  There may be issues with audio interface drivers though. What are you using for an audio interface?
 
Glen

That probably means take off the automatic stuff in Windows 7. No scheduling for defrag, no automatic updates, and that User Control Access, unless you do not trust programs you install on your computer, and if you have an anti-virus, well, I don't worry about that, but it is just something that makes you use it if you want to, to run anthing that is not signed by Microsoft like drivers and such and do you trust the publisher of the software.
It is more of an annoyance for me, and well just go through the  Control Panel Icons and go thoroughly through Windows 7 to turn off the automatic stuff for the most part (if you want). As well as the OS thinking it is more of the Administrator than you are like in XP, just get used to Windows 7 and it can be adjusted, even easier sometimes as to start-up programs (those little start up programs that hog memory because Microsoft did that first to make it look as if the computer runs faster than it does really) and with those programs a couple of seconds more is not going to change or slowdown anything that much. Check if you have Windows Defender on the computer and update that anti-virus or if you have another anti-virus then turn off Windows Defender if you want to.
 
Little things like that that probably will interfere with only doing audio on the computer and not having Windows 7 slow down anything.
 
Probably want to go through Device Manager also, and use the computer for Performance (like keep the USB ports on all the time, and Power for the Harddrive and Monitor on all the time) and stuff like that instead of switching it back and forth because in the end probably Windows 7 is setup as a general purpose computer and with audio you may want everything running all the time instead of saving energy unless you are using laptop computer and well look it all over. It is somewhat different than XP so do not think you can change the volume on a sound interface either anymore like XP they changed that all around since Vista, so get familiar with the OS. Some things you just can not do anymore like in XP (although in the end it really does not matter).
Just the same thing, Windows OS and Microsoft think they know more than you and all of that.
 
 

Well, the choice is up to you, but some things probably should not be automatic and may interfere at times.
 
It to me was like having a Sheldon Cooper from the TV show "Big Bang Theory" constantly annoying me, because it was like the computer was talking back and in the end you should be more concerned about the computer (and because of hackers in the world) and anything else like that, but a person can do and operate the OS to a certain degree like they want to. I guess more security built into the OS until you download all the Windows Updates which then means it was not as secure as they (Microsoft) thought it was. RME comes out with a lot of drivers because of adding or doing something with their audio equipment so it got annoying to me to tell the OS to trust the software because I was not going to just checkmark it as always being trusted. The OS to me was just annoying, to another person they might like that, but to me it seemed crazy. Of course the person should know somewhat what they are doing on the computer and use their own brain in the process. The choice is up to the person using the computer.
 
The thing with Windows 7 is that is stores old drivers for like audio and video even if you think you are un-installing them. To really remove all the drivers Windows 7 may keep (and it did on me but that may have been RME's fault and Nvidia's fault ??), you have to remove the device in Device Manager, restart the computer and see if Windows 7 is going to install a previous version driver for the hardware. It did it several times on me (remove device and un-install drivers for it) until I got with restarting the computer - no drivers found from Windows 7 and also with the video card until it got back to Standard VGA drivers.
Windows 7 will not wait to install drivers either, it will install them right when the OS starts up, and of course, I did not want that to take place until I wanted to install any drivers.
Too automatic for me compared to XP and some things are found in different places in Windows 7 compared to XP like it is not Start -> Run anymore, it is Start-> Search and although you can start the program after that, you can if Windows finds it I guess.

 
 

I run MC6 (steam install) on a standard installation of Win7 SP1 64bit with so far no problems. So my advice would be - just install normally and give it a try before you go through the trouble of all kinds of optimization stuff. With PCs, every computer is different. That said, having a well maintained lean system is always a good idea!