Any way to use my keyboard and mouse on a second monitor while my xbox controller stays connected to a game on the other?

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My little brother recently took a liking to playing some games I got for him on my PC and now he seems to be on my computer all the time ( I was just wondering, is there a program or native way in Windows 10 to make the keyboard and mouse functional in a separate program whilst keeping an xbox controller(s) and a game functional on another monitor to the one I would want my keyboard and mouse capabilities on?[even if only in windowed mode, though fullscreen capability would be the bee's knees]

So ideally the goal would be to have both the game and web browser(or notepad, photoshop) maximized on both monitors while both are running with the game being affected by the controller but not the keyboard and mouse, I don't want to have to alt-tab and minimize my little brother's game just to google something for example.

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated, it would be really cool if this is possible. Thanks for the help
 
A way would be to set up a second computer and run each screen on one of them. (or use a Hypervisor to run two systems off the same hardware, each with its own input devices)
Usually all inputs are mapped to the active window, so either the game or something else.
There are certain ways to force the inputs from a controller into a certain window. Possible for excample with two instances of Borderlands 2.
 

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Thanks so much for the responses.
I've never tried to use a hypervisor before, but it seems to be my best bet. What would be a good program to get to make that happen?(I'll look it up too, but just wondering on your preferences if that's alright) And the idea of restricting inputs to certain screens is appealing as well. It would be super easy if I just had a menu with my monitors and inputs listed and the ability to simply pick which ones work on whcih monitors.