Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller for Windows - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Xbox 360 Controller for Windows is a Xna Composite device. The developer of this driver was Microsoft. USB/VID_24C6&PID_02A0 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller for Windows driver

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 3.0 released on 2010-10-20 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 Service (UAC) is enabled please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will analyze your PC and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. It is as simple as that to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed.
Size of this driver: 1444907 bytes (1.38 MB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4 stars out of 1223 votes.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. Using DriverMax to install Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller for Windows driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's take a look!

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 detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller for Windows driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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