Windows 7 and the home button on the controller

[RudyBugy]

Hello. I have an old computer with windows 7, I use xcloud via chrome. When I connect my xbox controller to the computer via cable, the gamepad stops responding to the home button. The computer does not “see” this button, as if it doesn’t exist at all. It is not displayed in the gamepad settings. It’s not on the website https://hardwaretester.com/gamepad; instead of 17 buttons, there are only 16.
This causes a lot of problems. When playing on the site, I am forced to use the mouse to close the game or open the context menu. During a remote game, I cannot minimize or close the game in any way. Also, I can’t use keyboard shortcuts in your script.
I contacted Microsoft with this question, they told me that Windows 7 does not have full support for the xbox gamepad and they recommended upgrading to Windows 8-10, but I can’t do this because of the antiquity of my PC. At this point we could close the topic, since Windows cannot work with gamepads, then nothing can be done, BUT, there is a third-party program for reassigning gamepad buttons JoyToKey, and in it the home button works, you can assign any commands, which means it’s not Windows, but in software.
Is it possible to implement support for the home button on Windows 7 in the Better Xcloud script?

[RudyBugy]

I encountered another problem, in the game no man's sky it is impossible to complete the task, you need to press the home button on the controller in photo mode, but it does not work.

for the hundredth time I went to look for a solution in Google, but I did not find anything useful. only this
https://stackoverflow.com/a/69470318

it seems that it works for everyone except me.

who still has windows 7, check on your controller whether your home button works with a wired connection or not.

I found another program in which the home button is detected.
https://github.com/AntiMicroX

[RudyBugy]

ok. if you can't detect the home button on windows 7. is it possible to emulate its pressing in better cloud, for example by combining the view + menu buttons?

[RudyBugy]

Dear diary I can't express the pain I feel from the fact that I am forced to communicate here with myself and no one can help me.
redphx could at least politely answer that he can't help me, so that I would understand that I am not in the matrix and someone sees my messages.

I had great hope for the new version 6.0 that it would finally have a function for emulating the guide button with the gamepad buttons, but no, this did not happen.

Continuing this single struggle, I found another small program (only 500 kb) that assigns any key from the keyboard to the guide button. https://app.box.com/s/6yq4d0sig0xm4e5i35xq I assigned the F9 key (built-in xcloud function for opening the menu). Despite the fact that no other program, not even Windows, recognizes the guide button on my gamepad, this program copes perfectly.

[RudyBugy]

In version 6.0.3, they added the ability to open the menu with a key combination. But why only with the keyboard?

Make it possible to use the gamepad buttons.