General Installation

Run the Preferences utility from the command line

Windows

The Wacom Preferences Utility (located in C:\Program Files\Tablet\Wacom\32) can be run from the command line as follows:

N.B. in recent driver versions, PrefUtil.exe is located in C:\Program Files\Tablet\Wacom\PrefUtil.exe

Command	Introduced	Action
/remove-all		Removes preferences for all users and restarts the individual driver processes: WacomHost.exe, Wacom_Tablet.exe, Wacom_TabletUser.exe, Wacom_TouchUser.exe (must be run as admin)
/remove		Remove current user preferences and restarts the individual driver processes: WacomHost.exe, Wacom_Tablet.exe, Wacom_TabletUser.exe, Wacom_TouchUser.exe
/backup [backup file]		Backs up preferences. Will attempt to create directory if invalid. File extension must be *.wacomxs* or *.wacomprefs*
/restore [backup file]		Restores preferences of the specified file path and restarts the individual driver processes. File extension must be *.wacomxs* or *.wacomprefs*
/silent		Suppresses dialogs and output. Flag is not currently implemented for /export and /import
/export [export file]		Exports applications. If "export file" is not present it will use default. File extension must be *.wacomxs*
/import [import file]		Imports applications. File extension must be *.wacomxs*
/restart	6.3.28-3	Restarts the driver without removing the user's preferences or restarting the Tablet service
/logs-on	6.3.29-4	Enables the Driver logging function of the preference file utility
/logs-off	6.3.29-4	Disables the Driver logging function of the preference file utility
/logs-dll-on	6.3.30-b2	Enables the Wintab logging and Driver logging functions of the preference file utility
/logs-dll-off	6.3.30-b2	Disables the Wintab logging and Driver logging functions of the preference file utility
/clear-logs	6.3.29-4	Performs the clear logs function of the preference utility
/package-logs	6.3.29-4	Performs the package logs function of the preference utility
/extract-waczip	6.3.28-4	Extracts the WacomLogs.waczip file located on the current user's desktop to *C:\Wacom\Logs*, if that directory exists
/extract-waczip <file-path>	6.3.29-4	Extracts the waczip file in the specified path to *C:\Wacom\Logs*, if that directory exists

N.B. The Preferences utility will automatically exit when it has finished and may also display a "not responding" message while it is processing - this is normal behaviour.

MAC OSX

The table below shows the arguments which can be passed in the command line to control the preference file utility using the following command format:

/Applications/Wacom\ Tablet.localized/Wacom\ Tablet\ Utility.app/Contents/MacOS/Wacom\ Tablet\ Utility --<argument>

Command	Action
--restart	Restarts the drivers
--uninstall	Removes the drivers
--restore	Removes current users Prefs and restarts the drivers. When run as super-user removes all users prefs.
--restore	Restores Prefs from given path. In super-user mode it is a no-op
-h --help	This message

Note that --remove & --restore may be combined; --remove will execute first. When file extension omitted search order is .wacompref then .wacomxs