Xbox Remote Trouble On PC

Josh Sells Guns · March 28, 2015

I know, console peasant, but I just feel more comfortable playing Call of Duty with an Xbox remote. That is why I ordered a wireless reciever for PC. I got it to work by this method:

and it worked excellent. Over the past few days I showed a few friends how to do it (I'd uninstall the drivers and repeat the steps from the video which I have memorized) but recently while showing another friend, something different happened. For some reason this time, it asked for an admin password. Of course I thought it was weird at the time but I did it anyways. It required me to restart my PC. That spooked me a bit more. After it restarted, I did all the steps again. Except the last step was different. It is supposed (and USED to) to look like this:

in case you can't read it, it says something like Xbox 360 Controller for Windows Version #.#.#.#### (8/13/2009)

but instead mine now looks like this

(A screenshot from Microsoft forums but it looks exactly like mine)

I have no idea what happened or how to fix it. I was hoping someone here could help with this.

Dang it, was gonna have my introduction as my first post I dun fubbed up

Josh Sells Guns · March 28, 2015

Cananybody help? I have installed the most recent windows updates and nothing is working. In addition to that, I have also installed the drivers from the microsoft website but no matter how many time i do it it gives the same results AND it also keeeps saying that the same version is already installed on my PC (which clearly ti is not) somebody PLEASE help me out here...