Xbox Peripheral Drivers. Two of my friends recently bought PCs, and all was well until they couldn't connect their controller. Neither of them had Xbox Peripherals installed. One of our friends used a 3rd party app called "InputMapper". This worked for him and everything was great, but it didn't work for the second friend. More @Wikipedia
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