AFAIK they stopped selling them separately.

Force install the drivers.

1. Go into Device Manager
2. Go to Other Devices
3. Double Click "Unknown Device"
4. Click on the "Hardware" Tab
5. Update Driver
6. "Browse my computer for driver software"
7. "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer"
8. Select "Microsoft Common Controller for Windows Class"
9. Select "Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows"
10. When the warning comes up, continue anyway

The generic receivers work perfectly as long as you do that. Basically, the reason why it doesn't work out of the box is because the counterfeit versions have the wrong USB hardware id so Windows doesn't automatically detect it. It's dumb, but as long as you do it manually the things work perfect.

The other option was using unsigned drivers ... pass

Mind if i pick your brain as to how you reached that conclusion?

Mind if i pick your brain as to how you reached that conclusion?

Using unsigned drivers in x64 means stuffing with the BCD options.

Cant get it to work for the life of me, trying different drivers, reverting back to official drivers, old & updated, genereic drivers. Though I have found that yea UK still sells the official ones, tempting just to buy them.

Note that they official ones stop working if they get to hot, there's a handy man fix for it on the youtubes if you find you left in the car like I probably did

This pretty much sums up my last 20 minutes

On a similar note, where is the cheapest place to get a wifi 360 controller to use with my windows controller adapter thingy. We got one controller, but missus enjoys seeing me play Trine 2 and wants to join in. So figured I'd get a second one so she can.

This is why I bought a wired controller :)

Probably no help to you though :(