MCC crash on launch

[joos]

Been looking for solutions to this and tried everything thats already been posted for the last year relating to it not launching (removed external hard drive usb, fresh install, reboot, run as admin). MCC will not launch, just immediately crashes. I even tried older install versions. My OS is win7 and this is the info on the crash.

Problem Event Name:   APPCRASH
  Application Name:   MIDI Control Center.exe
  Application Version:   1.12.1.33
  Application Timestamp:   5f7dacf4
  Fault Module Name:   MIDI Control Center.exe
  Fault Module Version:   1.12.1.33
  Fault Module Timestamp:   5f7dacf4
  Exception Code:   c0000005
  Exception Offset:   00187c91
  OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
  Locale ID:   1033
  Additional Information 1:   0a9e
  Additional Information 2:   0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
  Additional Information 3:   0a9e
  Additional Information 4:   0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

any ideas? trying to update microfreak firmware so i can use vocoder

[MajorFubar]

Welcome.

Maybe update your OS, Windows 7 is antique and obsolete. The software may say suitable for Win 7+ but if your problem is being caused by an issue specific to your installation of Win 7 it's not ever going to get patched because Microsoft don't support Win 7 any longer, so stalemate.

[joos]

sadly an os update is not an option for me at the moment. should be compatible with my system.

[ZeroZero]

It's an obvious point, but it will crash (here) if any audio application is open - for example a sequencer or standalone instrument.