OEM Kill is not stopping my CTH-480 Wacom drivers

[NotKenZ]

it just does not.

[joshuah345]

same here, cth-680

Relevant console output:

[Device:Warning]	Failed to set tablet feature: 02-02
[Detect:Info]	Found tablet 'Wacom CTH-680'
[Detect:Info]	Found tablet 'Wacom CTH-680'
[Settings:Info]	Output mode: Absolute Mode
[Settings:Info]	Display area: [1920x1080@<960, 1058>:0°],
[Settings:Info]	Tablet area: [216x135@<108, 67.5>:0°],
[Settings:Info]	Clipping: Enabled
[Settings:Info]	Ignoring reports outside area: Disabled
[Settings:Info]	Tip Binding: []@1%
[Settings:Info]	Pen Bindings: [0, ], [1, ]
[Settings:Info]	Express Key Bindings: [0, ], [1, ], [2, ], [3, ], [4, ], [5, ], [6, ], [7, ]
[Settings:Info]	Driver is auto-enabled.
[OemKill:Error]	Failed. Reason: Access is denied.
[Settings:Info]	Interpolator: TabletDriverFilters.Devocub.Antichatter

[joshuah345]

upon further observation, killing wacom professional service requires administrator privileges.

Possible workarounds:

1. manually stop using an elevated command prompt or within services.msc
2. use a batch script for automation

here's a working batch script:

@echo off

:: BatchGotAdmin
:-------------------------------------
REM  --> Check for permissions
    IF "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%" EQU "amd64" (
>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64\config\system"
) ELSE (
>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system"
)

REM --> If error flag set, we do not have admin.
if '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' (
    echo Requesting administrative privileges...
    goto UACPrompt
) else ( goto gotAdmin )

:UACPrompt
    echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
    set params= %*
    echo UAC.ShellExecute "cmd.exe", "/c ""%~s0"" %params:"=""%", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"

    "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
    del "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
    exit /B

:gotAdmin
    pushd "%CD%"
    CD /D "%~dp0"
:--------------------------------------
net stop "Wacom Professional Service"
timeout 5

"timeout 5" at the end is optional. only needed if you want to see the output before cmd exits.

[KoleckOLP]

It does not kill my Wacom drivers on my CTL-4100 aswell.

[X9VoiD]

Currently waiting on OpenTabletDriver's #905.

[X9VoiD]

Due to changes within OTD (complete removal of plugin-defined GUI buttons) and the discovery of wacom's HID filter driver (which blocks feature initialization even if wacom drivers are not running), OemKill is now removed from the repository.