Microsoft Xbox Controller - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Xbox Controller is a XboxComposite hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Microsoft. USB/VID_045E&PID_02D1 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install Microsoft Xbox Controller driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Microsoft Xbox Controller driver. The archive contains version 10.0.16299.15 dated 2017-09-28 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your UAC (User Access Control) is started please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan your PC and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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There is no digital signature available for this driver.
Size of this driver: 29233 bytes (28.55 KB)
This driver received an average rating of 3.9 stars out of 55803 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 32 bits

2. How to use DriverMax to install Microsoft Xbox Controller driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Open DriverMax and press on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Microsoft Xbox Controller driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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