Spectra Powera Xbox 360 Controller Driver Windows 7

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So I have been happily using a Wireless Xbox 360 controller with a wireless receiver for many years now, Recently I fresh installed Win 7 on my PC and until now have been using AA batteries to power the controller. Today I would like to switch to using a battery pack and a plug and play to charge it so I dont need to buy batteries. When I plug the PaP into a USB port, no response, when I plug the opposite end into the controller, I get a 'USB Device Not Recognized' When I get into device manager to manually update the PaP driver, it's no where to be found. I hit 'Browse my comp..' then 'let me pick..' and uncheck 'show compatible hardware' and I have browsed through the majority of manufacturers, but mainly microsoft and the driver for an Xbox 360 plug and play is nowhere to be found. BUT when I have to manually update my 3rd party wireless receiver, one of the other options that immediately come up when I take the same steps above IS 'Xbox 360 Wireless Controller Via Play & Charge Kit' so obviously the driver is on my computer. I have attempted to look into System 32 in 'drivers' and 'DriverStore' and cannot find it manually, (the driver file names are jibberish to me) which SHOULD solve my problem right? by instead manually browsing explorer and manually selecting the driver, so my question is the title..

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My issue was that when I was plugging in my XBox One controller in my Windows 7 PC, the error was popping up that the 'USB Device could not be identified.' Good job Microsoft.

The sad thing about this is that on Windows 7, the drivers for the Xbox One Controllers specifically are supposed to download automatically when the device is plugged in. Obviously, since the Device Manager cannot identify the device in the first place, it doesn't know what drivers it needs to automatically download.

Unfortunately for all of us, the solution to manually download the drivers on the support website (http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-on-windows/accessories/connect-xbox-one-controller-to-pc) is, at the time of writing, obsolete.

The webpage instructs you to follow these instructions:

  1. Navigate to the Xbox One Controller results page on the MicrosoftUpdate Catalog
  2. Download the correct version of the driver for your operating system(64bit vs 32bit)
  3. Extract the contents of the .cab into a file directory.
  4. Right click on the xb1usb.inf file, click install, and click yes.

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However, users will find that when doing 'Right Click/Install' on the 64bit version of the drivers that the method of installation is no longer supported in the file. It throws the following error:

The INF file you selected does not support this method of installation

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Instantly I wanted to do some dirty edits to the file to add the flags and lines required for it to be supported, however before I did something so absolutely and utterly stupid as to make manual edits to driver software without any knowledge whatsoever on the subject, I decided to take the device manager for a test run.

Here's what I did:

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  1. Load up Device Manager
  2. Find the unidentified device on the list (will have a yellow errortriangle)
  3. Click, 'update driver'
  4. Click, 'browse my computer for driver software'
  5. Click, 'let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer'
  6. Then Click, 'Have Disk', and instead of selecting a disk drive,click browse
  7. Find the IMF file that you downloaded from the Update Catalog,select it, and click Open.

The device drivers should install correctly now, and you'll be able to play your nerdy games with no dirty edits to the file.

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On my Windows 7, my Xbox One controller works both, via USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports, however, the controller's icon will show up in the Devices and printers menu only when I connect it via the USB 3.0 port! Hopefully this will also work on your PC.

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I know this question is almost a year old, but there is an easier way to get the drivers. Although Microsoft removed the standalone driver installers from their website, there are still archived versions thanks to the Wayback Machine. It's as simple as using the installer and restarting your PC.

32-bit: Download

64-bit: Download

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