If you have two seperate Windows devices, and you use an Xbox Controller on both, it seems like the Xbox controller remembers the last device it was connected to and will not automatically connect to the secondary device even if the previous device it was connected to is not found. Aggrevating, but no problem, I’ll just go to the bluetooth control panel and press Connect on my Xbox Controller.
It’s not there. You literally have to uninstall the Xbox controller, then press the bluetooth button on your Xbox controller, connect, and reinstall the device.
But at least we have Notepad and Calculator updates (cheap shot for sure, but it felt good).
On a side note, Also it should be possible to do the things you can do in the Bluetooth control panel straight from your bluetooth icon in your bottom bar without having to bring up a whole other screen.
Thom77
<blockquote><em><a href="#450007">In reply to wright_is:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>All I'm asking for is when you go to the control panel and you see your Xbox Controller listed, to have the option to connect manually. As it is now, either you Xbox controller connects automatically or you are screwed and have to uninstall (remove) the Xbox controller and re-pair and thus, reinstall the controller.</p><p><br></p><p>The Xbox Controller is just trying to connect to the last connected device, which is ideal. Perhaps it could get better by allowing it to store the last 2 known devices, and have it try to pair to the second when the first is not found. But I can't understand how a "connect" option is not present in the control panel under the Xbox Controller section.</p>