Issues with GameInput service not working (error 0x80030105)

[Microsoft Windows]

So a few days ago I noticed that my Xbox gamepad wouldn't connect to my PC like normally, and I had to re-pair it with the receiver for it to connect. After that, pressing the Xbox button didn't open the Game Bar, but instead opened Steam. In other words, Windows wasn't really registering the gamepad as normally at all. And on top of this, the Xbox app was behaving strangely - didn't want to sign in, games launched from it wouldn't register the gamepad, etc. Looking into this a bit, both of the GameInput services - the "Host service for GameInput" service located in \Program Files (x86) and th

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