A problem we have been having throughout the development of our game is that we couldn't get our wired guitars to work on Windows 7, they are supposed to be plug and play, but that never worked for us. I even broke down and spent $50 to buy a used wireless guitar just so I could have a guitar that everyone could use on their laptops when we are meeting. Not to say that I didn't try to find out how to do it, I spent several hours, but was unable to find a solution on the internet. Now that I have found a solution I thought I would write down what I did, and if anyone else has this problem maybe it will help.
(NOTE: I was able to get the both stock Rock Band 1 and the stock Guitar Hero 2 wired guitars to work with this method, any other wired guitar I cannot speak for)
These are the steps I went through:
1. plug your guitar into a usb slot and wait for the driver installation to fail
2.open device manager
3. find the guitar (should have a yellow triangle with an exclamation point showing that the drivers failed to install)
4.right click -> update driver software
5.click browse my computer for driver software
6.click let me pick from a list of drivers on my computer
7.show all devices (its probably in a sublist but idk which one)
8.chose manufacturer to be Microsoft
9.chose model to be Xbox 360 Wireless Controller via Play & Charge Kit (I know it is a wired guitar but that is what works)
10. ignore warning and click yes.
If you don't have the drivers (you should) I believe you can download them from here (not 100% sure which one is needed):
or
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