Dont know how common this is for us wacom and vista users, but still, might help some of you atleast: Ever noticed how zbrush 3.1 hoggs all your available ram so that your wacom tablet service stops working and zbrush crashes on you? the next time you start up zbrush it will more then likely give u a error message that the tablet service is not available and your sensitivity, pen preassure and the button on the pen wont work.
all you have to do is to create this little BAT file with your notepad app (RUN and type: notepad <RETURN>) and fill your text document with this:
net stop TabletServiceWacom
net start TabletServiceWacom
Save it where you like with quotes to change the file extension to .bat. Something like: “tab_stop_start.bat” WITH the quotes, otherwhise you will end up with a text document. (an alternative is to rename the .txt to .bat after you have created it)
Now you have got a executable file for ending your TabletServiceWacom and followed with starting the service again.
Offcourse this is also doable by entering services.msc throu the cmd run option and do it all manually, this is just a handy way of keeping your steam cooking when you get that crash in zbrush. I have also noticed how the service fails to start when exiting sleep mode in vista, so this is kinda handy.