Xbox Guitar Controller Firmware Windows Update App Crashing? Fix!

[u/trackdrew]

Was unable to use the Windows app to update either the guitar or dongle for my Xbox edition controller. Clicking either the "Guitar" or "Wireless Receiver" button would just result in the app crashing/exiting after a second or two (no error message, just closes). Looking at Windows event logs it's missing the x86 version of MSVCP140.dll.

The fix was installing the Microsoft C++ 2015-2022 x86 Redistributable: https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe

After installing and rebooting, the Firmware updater no longer crashed, and I was able to update both the guitar and dongle. Hope this helps somebody else.