diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yaml b/.github/workflows/tests.yaml
index 71ece2d94..06ee87d29 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yaml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-20.04, windows-latest, macos-latest]
-        pyv: ["3.6", "3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
+        pyv: ["3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
         exclude:
           # no wheels for pygit2 yet
           - os: windows-latest
diff --git a/dvc/daemon.py b/dvc/daemon.py
index 76be1d4fd..c9e9a2381 100644
--- a/dvc/daemon.py
+++ b/dvc/daemon.py
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@ from dvc.utils import fix_env, is_binary
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-CREATE_NO_WINDOW = 0x08000000  # only available since Python 3.7 in subprocess.
-
 
 def _popen(cmd, **kwargs):
     prefix = [sys.executable]
@@ -28,6 +26,7 @@ def _popen(cmd, **kwargs):
 def _spawn_windows(cmd, env):
     from subprocess import (
         CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP,
+        CREATE_NO_WINDOW,
         STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW,
         STARTUPINFO,
     )
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index b4b1fb33e..ba0c04997 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ keywords = data-science, data-version-control, machine-learning, git
 classifiers =
     Development Status :: 4 - Beta
     Programming Language :: Python :: 3
-    Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6
     Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7
     Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8
     Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
@@ -30,7 +29,7 @@ setup_requires =
     setuptools>=58.2
     setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.3.1
     fastentrypoints>=0.12
-python_requires = >=3.6
+python_requires = >=3.7
 zip_safe = False
 packages = find:
 include_package_data = True
@@ -42,8 +41,7 @@ install_requires =
     configobj>=5.0.6
     gitpython>3
     dulwich>=0.20.23
-    pygit2>=1.5.0,<1.7; python_version < '3.7'
-    pygit2>=1.5.0; python_version >= '3.7'
+    pygit2>=1.5.0
     setuptools>=34.0.0
     nanotime>=0.5.2
     pyasn1>=0.4.1
@@ -62,12 +60,9 @@ install_requires =
     packaging>=19.0
     zc.lockfile>=1.2.1
     flufl.lock>=3.2,<4
-    win-unicode-console>=0.5; sys_platform == 'win32'
     networkx>=2.5
     psutil>=5.8.0
     pydot>=1.2.4
-    dataclasses>=0.7; python_version < '3.7'
-    contextvars>=2.1; python_version < '3.7'
     importlib-metadata>=1.4; python_version < '3.8'
     flatten_dict>=0.4.1,<1
     tabulate>=0.8.7
diff --git a/tests/utils/httpd.py b/tests/utils/httpd.py
index 44c0d7bfe..f3ef6a22c 100644
--- a/tests/utils/httpd.py
+++ b/tests/utils/httpd.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import hashlib
 import os
-import sys
 import threading
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 from http import HTTPStatus
@@ -11,40 +10,8 @@ from RangeHTTPServer import RangeRequestHandler
 
 class TestRequestHandler(RangeRequestHandler):
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        # NOTE: `directory` was introduced in 3.7
-        if sys.version_info < (3, 7):
-            self.directory = kwargs.pop("directory", None) or os.getcwd()
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
 
-    def translate_path(self, path):
-        import posixpath
-        import urllib
-
-        # NOTE: `directory` was introduced in 3.7
-        if sys.version_info >= (3, 7):
-            return super().translate_path(path)
-
-        path = path.split("?", 1)[0]
-        path = path.split("#", 1)[0]
-        # Don't forget explicit trailing slash when normalizing. Issue17324
-        trailing_slash = path.rstrip().endswith("/")
-        try:
-            path = urllib.parse.unquote(path, errors="surrogatepass")
-        except UnicodeDecodeError:
-            path = urllib.parse.unquote(path)
-        path = posixpath.normpath(path)
-        words = path.split("/")
-        words = filter(None, words)
-        path = self.directory
-        for word in words:
-            if os.path.dirname(word) or word in (os.curdir, os.pardir):
-                # Ignore components that are not a simple file/directory name
-                continue
-            path = os.path.join(path, word)
-        if trailing_slash:
-            path += "/"
-        return path
-
     def end_headers(self):
         # RangeRequestHandler only sends Accept-Ranges header if Range header
         # is present, see https://github.com/danvk/RangeHTTPServer/issues/23