Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller for Windows how to download and install the driver

Xbox 360 Controller for Windows is a Xna Composite hardware device. This driver was developed by Microsoft. USB/MS_COMP_XUSB10 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller for Windows - install the driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller for Windows driver. The archive contains version 6.3.9600.16384 dated 2013-08-21 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control (UAC) is started please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will scan your PC and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your PC in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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This driver was not digitally signed.

This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 3.3 stars out of 12054 votes.

2. The easy way: using DriverMax to install Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller for Windows driver

The most important advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Start DriverMax and press on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller for Windows driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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