In the Wacom Tablet Properites dialog box, under the Pen tab, there is a line of text near the bottom that says "Use Windows Ink" with a check box next to it. I usually leave it not checked.
The biggest problem with Windows Ink is it constantly hijacks press and hold functions with the pen tip. The simple act of clicking on something and dragging it can be disabled. That could be anything from moving an application window, graphics objects on the art board or even sliders on a CMYK color mixer. I think Windows Ink pulls that nonsense as some kind of substitute for right click functions, but in doing so it overrides basic functions in the pen. I've looked through every dialog box in Windows related to Windows Ink in attempts to disable that function and haven't found anything that actually works. Even hacking the Windows registry doesn't seem to do any good either. Making matters worse, Windows Ink will mess with the right click functions in the Wacom Pen. When right clicking over the desktop the pen should display a flyout menu with various options, but much of the time it will only show a white animated circle by the pen tip. This situation with Windows Ink has persisted for at least the past several years. Microsoft has done nothing to address the problem. Instead they appear to be doubling down on these terrible choices in software design, almost like it's some kind of ideology. The only solution for getting around the problem is by disabling Windows Ink in the tablet driver and living without pressure sensitive functions in the graphics tablet.
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